Expertise in Nursing Practice
Subtitle: Caring, Clinical Judgment, and Ethics
Contributors: Tanner, Christine; Chesla, Catherine
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780826187048
Description: This book analyzes and examines the anture of clinical knowledge and judgement, using the authors' reaserch study as its base. The author interviewed and observed the practice of 130 hospital nurses, mainly in critical care, over a six year period, collecting hundreds of clinical narratives from which they have refined and deepened their explaination of the stages of clinical skill acquisition and the components of expert practice.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Clinical Judgment; 2. The Relationship of Theory and Practice in the Acquisition of Skill; 3. Entering the Field: Advanced Beginner Practice; 4. The Competent Stage: A Time of Analysis, Planning, and Confrontation; 5. Proficiency: A Transition to Expertise; 6. Expert Practice; 7. Impediments to the Development of Clinical Knowledge and Ethical Judgment in Critical Care Nursing; 8. The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge.; title: 9. The Primacy of Caring and the Role of Experience, Narrative, and Community in Clinical and Ethical Expertise10. Implications of the Phenomenology of Expertise for Teaching and Learning Everyday Skillful Ethical Comportment; 11. The Nurse-Physician Relationship: Negotiating Clinical Knowledge; 12. Implications for Basic Nursing Education; 13. Implications for Nursing Administration and Practice; Appendices; References and Bibliography; Index.