BookPatricia Benner, Christine A. Tanner, Catherine A. Chesla.
Summary: This book examines the nature of clinical knowledge and judgment. The authors present a report of a six-year study of over 1,300 hospital nurses, primarily in critical care. The contributors document and analyze their clinical narratives for stages of clinical skill acquisition and the components of expert practice. Ultimately, this work examines the meaning of expertise in nursing practice through the nurse's use of scientific knowledge, professional experience, and careful attention to each patient's changing condition.
Contents:
The relationship of theory and practice in the acquisition of skill / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus
Entering the field : advanced beginner practice
The competent stage : a time of analysis, planning, and confrontation
Proficiency : a transition to expertise
Expert practice
Impediments to the development of clinical knowledge and ethical judgment in critical care nursing / Jane Rubin
Clinical judgment
The social embeddedness of knowledge
The primacy of caring and the role of experience, narrative, and community in clinical and ethical expertise
Implications of the phenomenology of expertise for teaching and learning everyday skillful ethical comportment / Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus, and Patricia Benner
The nurse-physician relationship : negotiating clinical knowledge
Implications for basic nursing education
Implications for nursing administration and practice.
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