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Ackerman, Brink, Clanton, Jones, Moody, Pirlech,

Price, and Prusensky

Frey

White-Linn*

Husband

Jonas

King

Kemppainen

Syzmanski

Woods

Hanucharurnkui and Vinya-nguag

Hobdell

Messmer and Neff Smith

Nagano and Funashima

Lockhart*

Temple and Fawdry

Por ter

Martin

Alligood

Kameoka

Jackson, Pokorny, and Vincent

Temple and Fawdry

Hanucharurnkui and Vinya-nguag

Murray and Baier

Doornbos

Laben, Sneed, and Seidel

DeHowitt

Gonot

Schreiber

Kemppainen

Rosendahl and Ross

Woods

Frey

Kneeshaw

DeHowitt

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consolidates applications of King’s work to various
client systems.

Phenomena of Concern to Clients

Within King’s work, it is critically important for the
nurse to focus on, and address, the phenomenon of
concern to the client. Without this emphasis on the
client’s perspective, mutual goal-setting cannot
occur. Hence, a client’s phenomena of concern was
selected as neutral terminology that clearly demon-

strated the broad application of King’s work to a

wide variety of practice situations. Table 16–9 sum-

marizes applications related to clients’ phenomena

of concern; the table also groups these applications,

primarily identified by disease or medical diagno-

sis, as illness management.

Health is one area that certainly binds clients

and nurses. Improved health is clearly the desired

end point, or outcome, of nursing care and

something to which clients aspire. Review of the

Table 16–8 Application to Client Concerns (Continued)

TOPIC AUTHOR(S) YEAR

Illness management (continued)

Coma

Diabetes

End-stage renal disease

HIV

High-risk infants

Hypertension

Nephrology

Neural tube defects

Neurofibromatosis

Oncology

Orthopedic

Ostomy

Pain management

Psychiatric

Terminal illness

Risky health behaviors

Smoking

Well-being

*Indicates thesis or dissertation