The nursing instructor summarizes Imogene King's view of health as
a. a state of harmony with the environment.
b. being able to function in social roles.
c. stability within the human system.
d. the absence of illness or disability.
B
For King, health is the ability to function in social roles.
Rogers' science of unitary beings is concerned with harmonious interactions between humans and their environment.
Stability within the human system is a concept in Betty Neuman's systems model.
None of the nursing theorists studied view health as the absence of illness or disability.
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