CHAPTER 6 PATRICIA BENNER Flashcards
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PATRICIA BENNER WAS BORN IN
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Hampton, Virginia
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She acknowledges that her thinking in nursing was influenced greatly by
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Virginia Henderson.
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- defined as describing, illustrating, and giving language to taken-for-granted areas of practical wisdom, skilled know-how, and notions of good practice.
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Articulation research
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- the person has no background experience of the situation in which he or she is involved.
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Novice
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- has enough experience to grasp aspects of the situation.
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Advanced beginner
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- typified by conscious and deliberate planning that determines which aspects of current and future situations are important and which can be ignored.
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Competent
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- the performer perceives the situation as a whole rather than in terms of aspects, and the performance is guided by maxims.
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Proficient
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- it is achieved when “the expert performer no longer relies on analytical principle to connect an understanding of the situation to an appropriate action.”
- having an intuitive grasp of the situation and being able to identify the region of the problem without losing time considering a range of alternative diagnoses, and solutions.
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Expert
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- aspects are the recurring meaningful situational components recognized and understood in context because the nurse has previous experience.
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Aspects of a Situation
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- attributes are measurable properties of a situation that can be explained without previous experience in the situation.
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Attributes of a Situation
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- is an interpretively defined area of skilled performance identified and described by its intent, functions, and meanings.
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Competency
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- is an area of practice having a number of competencies with similar intents, functions, and meanings.
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Domain
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- is an example of a clinical situation that conveys one or more intents, meanings, functions, or outcomes easily translated to other clinical situations.
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Exemplar
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- is not a mere passage of time, but an active process of refining and changing preconceived theories, notions, and ideas when confronted with actual situations; it implies there is a dialogue between what is found in practice and what is expected.
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Experience
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- is a cryptic description of skilled performance that requires a certain level of experience to recognize the implications of the instructions.
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Maxim
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- is a clinical experience that stands out and alters the way the nurse will perceive and understand future clinical situations.
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Paradigm Case
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- describes a perceptual stance or embodied knowledge whereby aspects of a situation stand out as more or less important.
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Salience
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- is good conduct born out of an individualized relationship with the patient.
- it involves engagement in a particular situation and entails a sense of membership in the relevant professional group.
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Ethical Comportment
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- means interpretive; the term derives from biblical and judicial exegesis
- refers to describing and studying “meaningful human phenomena in a careful and detailed manner as free as possible from prior theoretical assumptions, based instead on practical understanding.
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Hermeneutics