A Novice's Echelon

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 and guidelines.

It expresses more the role function of a nurse in a patient-nurse interaction. Her theory acknowledges the individuality while defining nurses’ role based on art and science. Nursing, as an art makes use of our resources available which depends on passion of a nurse. With this, we nurses could express one and acquire knowledge without having to force ourselves to do what we don’t feel like to especially in providing services to patients. It has leaded us to openness which would eventually result to a comfortable and meaningful nursing experience to everyone.

She has truly showed us how the nurses progress through time and emphasized the true meaning of caring as a key component of Nursing.

Most importantly, Benner provided us a structure from using the past experiences as the basis and rely to this as our guidance to present that could help us to decide in dealing with problematic day-to-day experience in our practice.