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Nursing Theorist:

Patricia Benner, R.N., P.h.D.,

FAAN,F.R.C.N.

Professor Miller ¶s Tuesday Clinical

Group: Amanda Nather, Bincy John,Brittany Coffin, Kimberly Roe, Julia

Kitchings, and Natalie Shelton



Patricia Benner, R.N., P.h.D.,

FAAN,F.R.C.N. Patricia Benner is a Professor in the

Department of Physiological Nursing in

the School of Nursing at the University of

California, San Francisco.

Dr. Benner received her bachelor's

degree in nursing from Pasadena

College, her master's degree in medical

surgical nursing from the University of

California, San Francisco, and the Ph.D.

from the University of California,

Berkeley, in Stress and Coping and

Health under the direction of Hubert

Dreyfus and Richard Lazarus.

³Knowledge development in a practice discipline

consists of extending practical knowledge (know-

how) through theory based scientific investigations

and through the clinical experience in the practice of

that discipline´ (Benner, 1984)



Dr. Benner ¶s Theory Dr. Benner categorized nursing into 5

levels of capabilities: novice, advancedbeginner, competent, proficient, andexpert.

She believed experience in the clinicalsetting is key to nursing because itallows a nurse to continuously expandtheir knowledge base and to provideholistic, competent care to the patient.

Her research was aimed at

discovering if there weredistinguishable, characteristicdifferences in the novice¶s andexpert¶s descriptions of the sameclinical incident.



Four Domains of Nursing Paradigm:



Client/ Person ³The person is a self-

interpreting being, that is

the person does notcome into the world

predefined but gets

defined in the course of

living a life.´- Dr. Benner



Health

Dr. Benner focuses on the lived

experience of being healthy and

being ill.

Health is defined as what can beassessed, whereas well being is

the human experience of health or

wholeness.

Well being and being ill are

understood as distinct ways of being in the world.



Environment/Situation

Benner uses situation rather than environment becausesituation conveys a social

environment with socialdefinition and meanifulness.

³To be situated implies thatone has a past, present, andfuture and that all of theseaspects«.influence thecurrent situation.´- Dr.Benner



Nursing

Nursing is described as a caringrelationship, an ³enabling condition of connection and concern.´ -Dr. Benner

³Caring is primary because caring setsup the possibility of giving andreceiving help.´

Nursing is viewed as a caring practicewhose science is guided by the moralart and ethics of care andresponsibility.

Dr. Benner understands that nursingpractice as the care and study of thelived experience of health, illness, anddisease and the relationships amongthe three elements.



Nursing theory as a framework for

practice«

Dr. Benner presented her research in: From

Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in

Clinical Nursing Practice.

Novice, Advance Beginner, Competent,

Proficient, and Expert are the different

components explained in her research.



Novice

The person has no

background experience of

the situation in which he or she is involved.

There is difficulty discerning

between relevant and

irrelevant aspects of the

situation.

Generally this level applies to

nursing students.



Advance

dBeginner

The advance beginner stage in the

Dreyfus model develops when the

person can demonstrate marginally

acceptable performance havingcoped with enough real situations

to note, or to have pointed out by

mentor, the recurring meaningful

components of the situation.

Nurses functioning at this level areguided by rules and oriented by

task completion.



Competent The competent stage is the most

pivotal in clinical learning because

the learner must begin to recognize

patterns and determine whichelements of the situation warrant

attention and which can be

ignored.

The competent nurse devises new

rules and reasoning procedures for a plan while applying learned rules

for action on the basis of the

relevant facts of that situation.



Proficient The performer perceives the

information as a whole (totalpicture) rather than in terms of

aspects and performance. Proficient level is a qualitative leapbeyond the competent.

Nurses at this level demonstrate anew ability to see changingrelevance in a situation including

the recognition and theimplementation of skilledresponses to the situation as is itevolves.



Expert

Fifth stage of the Dreyfus

model is achieved when

³the expert performer nolonger relies on

analytical principals to

connect her or his

understanding of thesituation to an

appropriate action



THE R AP!!!«.Featuring DJ

Bincy and MC NattyHer name is Dr. Benner and she¶s

the best«..nursing theorist thatyou¶ll see on ya test«.

Her research on her theoryteaches us nurses how to thinkclearly

So if you got skills you need morepractice Dr. Benner¶s theorywill help to relax us«

She discovered skills for a nurse

so we don¶t have to put apatients in a hearse

Patricia Benner teaching critical care«.from Bachelors to Master and Ph.D.Pasadena San Fran and Berkeley if your looking for more informationholla back on the web atPatricia.com

We¶re headed from a novice to an

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