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A 7 page research paper that examines and discusses the Novice to Expert theory of Patricia Benner, which, as its names implies, focuses on the process of professional development that charts the evolution of a novice to an expert nurse. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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focuses on the process of professional development that charts the evolution of a novice to an expert. As this theory deal primarily with a narrowly-defined aspect of nursing, the sources
that discuss Benner and her theory do not overtly refer to how Benner perceives the meta-paradigms of nursing, i.e., person, nursing, health and environment. However, by examining what has been
written about her theory, as well as what Benner herself has written, conclusions can be drawn as to how Benner perceives nursings meta-paradigms. Benners theory Patricia Benners approach to
"describing or uncovering" the intricacies of nursing is to focus on the daily lived stories of care," which are predominant in contemporary nursing philosophy (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In building
her theory of nursing practice, Benner takes a broadly based narrative approach as to what it means to provide nursing care. In her 1983 test, Benner described her theoretical approach
as based on Heideggerian phenomenology (Bradshaw, 1995), which means that she is primarily interested in the discerning the lived experience of nurses and how this experience develops and
unfolds (Bradshaw, 1995). Benner feels that new and inexperienced nurses rely primarily on "rational and analytical knowledge," but as they become more experienced, Benner feels that they begin to rely
more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words, Benner acknowledges the significance of clinical experience
and how, due to this experience, nurses become more and more skilled at coalescing information to the point where they "just know" what to do without being able, sometimes,
to express the rationale for their judgment in conventional terms (Bradshaw, 1995). As this suggests, the nursing theorist who has been most associated with the development of an intuitive
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