Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment, and Ethics

by Patricia Benner RN PhD FAAN (Editor), Christine Tanner RN PhD FAAN (Editor), Catherine Chesla RN DNSc (Editor)

"This book analyzes and examines the anture of clinical knowledge and judgement, using the authors' reaserch study as its base. The author interviewed and observed the practice of 130 hospital nurses, mainly in critical care, over a six year period, collecting hundreds of clinical narratives from which they have refined and deepened their explaination of the stages of clinical skill acquisition and the components of expert practice."

432 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 1998

Reviews

[Rainier Moreno-Lacalle · Rating 5 out of 5]

The breadth and depth of Benner, Tanner, and Chesla's book in nursing is wide and cuts across different nursing areas. The book states accounts of nurses moving from novice, advance beginner competent, proficient, to expert. Descriptive accounts as to how each stage can be understood are supported by actual transcripts of nurses which makes the book more interesting. One of the fascinating parts of this book is that it is grounded in an actual qualitative research!

[TJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Phil 472: Clinical Health Care Ethics
Fascinating thesis on the habitutation of practice and the levels of practice one goes through as they learn a profession