Personal Systems: focuses on the individual

Perception: a process in which data obtained through the senses and from memory are organized, interpreted, and transformed

Self: made up of thoughts and feelings related to one�s awareness of being a person separate from others and influencing one�s view of who and what he or she is

Growth & development: processes in people�s lives through which the move from a potential for achievement to actualization of self

Body Image: includes both the way one perceives one�s body and others� reactions to one�s appearance

Space: physical area known as territory and by the behaviours of those who occupy it

Time: an interval between the two events that is experienced differently by each person

Interpersonal systems: formed by human beings interacting

Interactions: observable behaviours of two or more persons in mutual presence

Communication: verbal and non verbal situational, perceptual, transactional, irreversible, or moving fwd in time, personal, and dynamic

Transactions: a series of exchanges between human beings and the environment that include observable behaviours that seek to reach goals of worth to the participants

Role: characteristic of role include reciprocity in that a person may be a giver at one time and a taker at another time, with a relationship b/t two or more individuals who are functioning in two or more roles that are learned, social, complex, and situational

Stress: an ever changing condition in which an individual, through environmental interaction, seeks to keep equilibrium to support growth and development and activity

Social Systems: is a structured larger group in a system that includes the roles behaviours, and practices defined by the system for the purposes of sustaining desirable attributes and for creating methods to maintained the practices and rules of the system

Organization: made up of individuals who have prescribed roles and positions and who make use of resources to meet goals-both personal and organizational

Authority: active, reciprocal process of transaction in which the actors� experience, understanding, and values influence the meaning, legitimacy and acceptance of those in organizational positions associated with authority

Status: the relationship of one�s place in a group to others in the group or of a group to other groups

Decision Making: changing and orderly process through which choices related to goals are made among identified possible activities and individual or group actions are taken to move twd the goal

Reference: George, Julia, b. (2002). King's Conceptual System. In George, Julia, B. (Ed.), Nursing theories: The base for professional nursing practice (5th ed.). (pp.243-248). New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall.