Expertise in nursing practice : caring, clinical judgment & ethics

Benner, Patricia E. (Author). Tanner, Christine A., 1947- (Added Author). Chesla, Catherine A. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780826125446
ISBN: 0826125441
Physical Description: print
xxvi, 497 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New York : Springer Pub., c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-490) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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, and Patricia Benner -- The nurse-physician relationship : negotiating clinical knowledge -- Implications for basic nursing education -- Implications for nursing administration and practice.