title: Concept of the month: implementing King's Conceptual Framework at the bedside.
abstract: Acknowledging the use of conceptual frameworks as the future of nursing, administrators are searching for methods to incorporate theory into practice. The challenge is to do this in a way that is meaningful and useful to the nurse at the beside. The authors describe how one directorate, in a 650-bed community hospital, developed a program that enabled nurses to understand and apply Imogene King's systems and concepts to their practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Centenary Hospital, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schreiber
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*