Expertise in nursing practice : caring, clinical judgment & ethics

Expertise in nursing practice : caring, clinical judgment & ethics / Patricia Benner, Christine A. Tanner, Catherine A. Chesla.

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...

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Main Authors: Benner, Patricia E., Tanner, Christine A., 1947- (Author), Chesla, Catherine A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, ©2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Nursing > Decision making.
Clinical competence.
Nursing > Study and teaching.
Nursing > Study and teaching (Continuing education)
Nursing ethics.
Nursing.
nursing (health science)
MEDICAL > Nursing > Medical & Surgical.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Reference.
Nursing
Clinical competence
Nursing > Decision making
Nursing ethics
Nursing > Study and teaching
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Table of 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, Patricia Benner
  • The nurse-physician relationship : negotiating clinical knowledge
  • Implications for basic nursing education
  • Implications for nursing administration and practice.

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