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

✍ Scribed by Patricia Benner RN PhD FAAN, Christine Tanner RN PhD FAAN, Catherine Chesla RN DNSc

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 524
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Designated a Doody's Core Title! 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 The Relationship of Theory and Practice in the Acquisition of Skill......Page 28
2 Entering the Field: Advanced Beginner Practice......Page 52
3 The Competent Stage: A Time of Analysis, Planning, and Confrontation......Page 88
4 Proficiency: A Transition to Expertise......Page 130
5 Expert Practice......Page 164
6 Impediments to the Development of Clinical Knowledge and Ethical Judgment in Critical Care Nursing......Page 198
7 Clinical Judgment......Page 226
8 The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge......Page 260
9 The Primacy of Caring and the Role of Experience, Narrative, and Community in Clinical and Ethical Expertise......Page 306
10 Implications of the Phenomenology of Expertise for Teaching and Learning Everyday Skillful Ethical Comportment......Page 336
11 The Nurse–Physician Relationship: Negotiating Clinical Knowledge......Page 362
12 Implications for Basic Nursing Education......Page 396
13 Implications for Nursing Administration and Practice......Page 432
Appendix A: Background and Method......Page 462
Appendix B: Description of Nurse Informants......Page 490
Appendix C: Background Questions for Interviews and Observations......Page 492
References......Page 498
C......Page 518
E......Page 519
M......Page 520
O......Page 521
R......Page 522
T......Page 523
U......Page 524