Expertise in nursing practice : caring, clinical judgment & ethics / Patricia Benner, Christine A. Tanner, Catherine A. Chesla

Includes bibliographical references and index

The relationship of theory and practice in the acquisition of skill / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus -- Entering the field : advanced beginner practice -- The competent stage : a time of analysis, planning, and confrontation -- Proficiency : a transition to expertise -- Expert practice -- impediments to the development of clinical knowledge and ethical judgment in critical care nursing / Jane Rubin -- Clinical judgment -- The social embeddedness of knowledge -- The primacy of caring and the role of experience, narrative, and community in clinical and ethical expertise -- Implications of the phenomenology of expertise for teaching and learning everyday skillful ethical comportment / Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus, and Patricia Benner -- The nurse-physician relationship : negotiating clinical knowledge -- Implications for basic nursing education -- Implications for nursing administration and practice