PATRICIA BENNER'S LIFE
NAME: Patricia Benner
DATE OF BIRTH: May 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH: Hampton Virginia USA
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT:
Ø Master’s Degree in Medical Surgical Nursing- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Francisco 1970.
Ø Ph.D – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELY 1982.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
* 1989- became Associate Professor in Department of Physiological Nursing, in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (became tenured Professor 1989.)
* 2002 - Professor at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. and the first occupant of the Thelma Shobe Cook Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality.
* Recently elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.
* Internationally noted Researcher and Lecturer on health, stress and coping, skill acquisition and ethics.
* Dr. Patricia Benner acknowledged that her thinking in Nursing had been influenced greatly by Virginia Henderson, who commented that because of the nature and scope of her work, “From Novice to Expert”, it had potential to materially affect practice and at the same time, the nurses’ preparation.
* 1989- became Associate Professor in Department of Physiological Nursing, in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (became tenured Professor 1989.)
* 2002 - Professor at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. and the first occupant of the Thelma Shobe Cook Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality.* Recently elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.
* Internationally noted Researcher and Lecturer on health, stress and coping, skill acquisition and ethics.
* Dr. Patricia Benner acknowledged that her thinking in Nursing had been influenced greatly by Virginia Henderson, who commented that because of the nature and scope of her work, “From Novice to Expert”, it had potential to materially affect practice and at the same time, the nurses’ preparation.
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