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Expertise in nursing practice : caring, clinical judgment and ethics / Patricia A. Benner, Christine A. Tanner, Catherine A. Chesla ; with contributions by Hubert L. Dreyfus [and others].

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Expertise in nursing practice : caring, clinical judgment and ethics / Patricia A. Benner, Christine A. Tanner, Catherine A. Chesla ; with contributions by Hubert L. Dreyfus [and others].
Author
Benner, Patricia A.
Publication
New York : Springer Pub. Co., [1996], ©1996.

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  • Chesla, Catherine A.
  • Tanner, Christine A., 1947-
Description
xviii, 410 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • The authors interviewed and observed the practice of 130 hospital nurses, mainly in critical care, over a 6-year period, collecting hundreds of clinical narratives from which they have refined and deepened their explanation of the stages of clinical skill acquisition and the components of expert practice.
  • This long-awaited sequel to Benner's earlier book, From Novice to Expert, this volume further analyzes and examines the nature of clinical knowledge and judgment, using the authors' major new research study as its base.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. Clinical Judgment -- 2. The Relationship of Theory and Practice in the Acquisition of Skill / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus -- 3. Entering the Field: Advanced Beginner Practice -- 4. The Competent Stage: A Time of Analysis, Planning, and Confrontation -- 5. Proficiency: A Transition to Expertise -- 6. Expert Practice -- 7. Impediments to the Development of Clinical Knowledge and Ethical Judgment in Critical Care Nursing / Jane Rubin -- 8. The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge -- 9. The Primacy of Caring and the Role of Experience, Narrative, and Community in Clinical and Ethical Expertise -- 10. Implications of the Phenomenology of Expertise for Teaching and Learning Everyday Skillful Ethical Comportment / Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus and Patricia Benner -- 11. The Nurse-Physician Relationship: Negotiating Clinical Knowledge -- 12. Implications for Basic Nursing Education -- 13. Implications for Nursing Administration and Practice --
  • App. A. Background and Method -- App. B. Description of Nurse Informants -- App. C. Background Questions for Interviews and Observations.
ISBN
0826187005
LCCN
95031425
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries