A Novice's Echelon

NAME:  Patricia Benner DATE OF BIRTH: May 10, 1955PLACE OF BIRTH: Hampton Virginia USA  EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: Ø  Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN)- PASADENA COLLEGE 1964. Ø  Master’s Degree in Medical Surgical Nursing- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Francisco 1970. Ø 

According to P. Benner: “Knowledge development in a practice discipline consists of extending practical knowledge (know-how) through  theory based scientific investigations and through the clinical experience in the practice of that discipline.” Her Theory:Dr. Benner categorized nursing

These levels reflect movement from reliance on past abstract principles to the use of past concrete experience as paradigms and change in perception of situation as a complete whole in which certain parts are relevant.  Each step builds on the previous one as abstract principles are refined

November 1989 - Volume 89 - Issue 11 One of the journals in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) wherein Patricia Benner commented and emphasized the importance of Simplifying Care

Benner’s theory established the belief that patients has the potential to grow personally in a healthy and creative way while relying on our practice in our field of work from being a novice who is a beginner with no experience to being expert who doesn’t have to rely any longer on principles, rules

Benner incorporated assumptions from the Dreyfus model, “that with experience and mastery the skill is transformed.” She furthered , “This model assumes that all practical situations are far more complex than can be described by formal models, theories and textbook descriptions.” PERSON: Benner and