Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment, and Ethics 2 New edition

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Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: "Designated a 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 1,300 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. Highlights of this book: Includes transitional guidance for nurses new to the field Discusses the primacy of caring and the importance of good clinical judgment Includes new practice models, including the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition Provides guidelines for strengthening the nurse-patient relationship Presents implications for nursing education and patient safety Ultimately, this work "defines" expertise in nursing practice. The book serves as a valuable resource that will enable nurses to expand their knowledge base, cultivate their clinical skills, and become successful experts in nursing practice. "Table of Contents: 1. The Relationship of Theory and Practice in the Acquisition of Skill 2. Entering the Field: Advanced Beginner Practice 3. The Competent Stage: A Time of Analysis, Planning, and Confrontation 4. Proficiency: A Transition to Expertise 5. Expert Practice 6. Impediments to the Development of Clinical Knowledge and Ethical Judgment in Critical Care Nursing 7. Clinical Judgment 8. The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge 9. The Primacy of Caring and the Role of Experience, Narrative, and Community in Clinical and Ethical Expertise 10. Implications of the Phenomenology of Expertise for Teaching and Learning Everyday Skillful Ethical Comportment 11. The Nurse-Physician Relationship: Negotiating Clinical Knowledge 12. Implications for Basic Nursing Education 13. Implications for Nursing Administration and Practice Appendices A. Background and Method 351 B. Description of Nurse Informants 373 C. Background Questions for Interviews and Observations 375 References and Bibliography 383 Index 399Publisher Marketing: 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. Highlights of this book: Includes transitional guidance for nurses new to the field Discusses the primacy of caring and the importance of good clinical judgment Includes new practice models, including the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition Provides guidelines for strengthening the nurse-patient relationship Presents implications for nursing education and patient safety Ultimately, this work "defines" expertise in nursing practice. The book serves as a valuable resource that will enable nurses to expand their knowledge base, cultivate their clinical skills, and become successful experts in nursing practice.

Contributor Bio:  Benner, Patricia Patricia Benner, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a professor emerita of nursing in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and an honorary fellow in the Royal College of Nursing, United Kingdom. She is the author of "From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice", which has been translated into 10 languages and provides the background for this research; has coauthored with Judith Wrubel in "The Primacy of Caring, Stress and Coping in Health and Illness; Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment and Ethics" with Christine Tanner and Catherine Chesla; and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching National Nursing Education Study entitled, "Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation" (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2010). Dr. Benner coedited "Interpretive Phenomenology in Health Care Research" (Chan, Brykczynski, Malone, & Benner, 2010). Dr. Benner is currently conducting research on clinical knowledge and experiential learning of nurses caring for wounded warriors in combat zones with Dr. Patricia Kelley and colleagues from the Federal Tri-Service Research Program.