Patricia Benner Flashcards
Caring, Clinical Wisdom and Ethics in Nursing Practice
Patricia Benner
Born in Hampton, Virginia
Approach to knowledge development is from beginner to expert
Patricia Benner
person can demonstrate marginally acceptable performance, having coped with enough real situation, or have pointed out by a mentor. ›Have enough experience to grasp aspect of the situation
Advanced beginner
person has no background experience of the situation in which she or he is involved. ›Context-free, rules and objectives must be given to guide performance
Novice
›This applies to nursing students wherein they have yet difficulty discerning between relevant and irrelevant aspects of the situation ›In the clinical area it is like a new/novice nurse placed in an area foreign to her
Novice
They are responsible for managing patient care yet they still rely on the help of those who are more experienced ›Examples are the newly graduate nurses
Advanced beginner
learning through actual situations and following instruction of others, the advanced beginner moves to the competent level ›Consistency, predictability and time management are important in competent performance
Competent
the nurse perceives the situation as a whole rather than in terms of aspect and the performance id guided by maxims
Proficient
Focus is on time management and the nurse organization of the task.
Competent
Nursing Paradigm
Nursing
Person
Health
Situation
is a caring relationship, an enabling condition of connection and concern ›-viewed as a caring practice whose science is guided by the moral art and ethics of care and responsibility
Nursing
The nurse must understand the roles of each person, their body language, sensations as well as their customs and their own understanding of themselves.
Person
a self-interpreting being that is, the person does not come into the world predefined but gets defined in the course of living a life.
Person
in other theories this is term as environment ›Defined as person engaged interaction, interpretation and understanding of the situation
Situation
›Each persons past, present and future, which include his own personal meanings, habits and perspective influence the current situation
Situation
not just the absence of disease and illness ›-it is defined as what can be assessed meaning what can be observed from the patient
Health
