Expertise in Nursing Practice

de Patricia Benner

This book analyzes and examines the anture of clinical knowledge and judgement, using the authors' reaserch study as its base. The author interviewed and observed the practice of 130 hospital nurses, mainly in critical care, over a six year period, collecting hundreds of clinical narratives from which they have refined and deepened their explaination of the stages of clinical skill acquisition and the components of expert practice.