Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment and Ethics

by Benner, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780826125446
• ISBN10: 0826125441
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

Nursing practice is a complex and varied field that requires precision, dedication, care, and expertise. Clinicians must have both the skills and the tools to attend to changes in patients' responses, recognize trends, and understand the nature of their patients' conditions over time.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
The Relationship of Theory and Practice in the Acquisition of Skill	p. 1
Entering the Field: Advanced Beginner Practice	p. 25
The Competent Stage: A Time of Analysis, Planning, and Confrontation	p. 61
Proficiency: A Transition to Expertise	p. 103
Expert Practice	p. 137
Impediments to the Development of Clinical Knowledge and Ethical Judgment in Critical Care Nursing	p. 171
Clinical Judgment	p. 199
The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge	p. 233
The Primacy of Caring and the Role of Experience, Narrative, and Community in Clinical and Ethical Expertise	p. 279
Implications of the Phenomenology of Expertise for Teaching and Learning Everyday Skillful Ethical Comportment	p. 309
The Nurse-Physician Relationship: Negotiating Clinical Knowledge	p. 335
Implications for Basic Nursing Education	p. 369
Implications for Nursing Administration and Practice	p. 405
Background and Method	p. 435
Description of Nurse Informants	p. 463
Background Questions for Interviews and Observations	p. 465
References	p. 471
Index	p. 491
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