Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Patrcia Benner, From novice to expert.


This abstract had been created with the objective of learn how is the structure of this, and also, to complement the topic review in the PAE class, models and theories of nursing. Patricia Benner created a philosophy called From novice to expert. The topic of this is how a graduated nurse acquires experience and skills from the clinical practice nursing for advancing five levels, from novice to expert, beginning with conducts guided by their theoretical knowledge, to become an expert, efficient and guided by their professional intuition.    
The purpose is to know how Patricia Benner created this philosophy, how studies or others works she considers how bases of her philosophy.
 For this bibliography review, were used different papers and books about models and theories of nursing.
The results obtained in this review show two important theoretical sources. For this hand, Patricia Benner was influence in her work for the phenomenology of Heidegger, for this reason she considers people as the sum of experiences. On the other hand, she considers the Dreyfus y Dreyfus model about the skills acquire. This consists in five levels, from novice to expert, based on observation of chess players and pilots in emergency situations.
In conclusion, is very important know about models and theories of nursing, because are the basis of nursing knowledge and the history of nursing into a profession. In particular, this philosophy, From novice to expert, is a useful tool for nurses know about the clinical practice and she can guide their actions with the patients, their environment, the family of patient and health-disease process.