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

by Patricia Benner, Christine Tanner, Catherine A. Chesla

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! Nursing practice is a complex and varied field that requires precision, dedication, care, and expertise. Clinicians must have both the skills and the tools to attend to changes in patients' responses, recognize trends, and understand the nature of their patients' conditions over time. This book clearly delineates the skills needed to become an expert nurse. In this new edition, the editors present a report of a six-year study of over 130 hospital nurses working in critical care. Expanding upon the study conducted in the previous edition, this new book documents and analyzes hundreds of new clinical narratives that track the development of clinical skill acquisition, including caring, clinical judgment, workplace ethics, and more.

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528 pages, Paperback

Published March 16, 2009

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[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