This document provides an overview of Imogene King's conceptual framework for nursing. It includes basic assumptions about human beings as open systems interacting with their environment. The framework consists of three interacting systems - personal, interpersonal, and social. For each system, several relevant concepts are defined. The framework informs King's theory of goal attainment and the nursing process, which involves assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Limitations of the theory are that it lacks clarity on some concepts like environment and does not fully connect to nursing care beyond the individual level.