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• Professor, University of California- San • viewed nursing practice as the care and
Francisco
study of the lived experience of health,
• obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from illness, and disease and the relationships
Pasadena College in 1964
among these three elements.
NURSING
• she described nursing as a caring
relationship, an “enabling condition of
connection and concern”
PROFICIENT
‣ perceives situations as whole rather than in
terms of aspects
‣ performance is guide by maxims (cryptic
instructions that make sense only if there is
already a deep understanding of the
situation)
‣ perception is a key word
‣ possesses a web of perspectives on a
situation
‣ demonstrate an increased confidence in
their knowledge & abilities
EXPERT
‣ no longer relies on an analytic principle
(rule, guideline, maxim) to connect
understanding of a situation to appropriate
action
‣ operates from a deep understanding of the
total situation
‣ possessing an intuitive grasp of the
problem
‣ there is a qualitative change as the expert
performer “knows the patient”, which
means that knowing typical patterns of
responses & knowing the patient as a
person
‣ key aspects of the expert nurse practice:
- demonstrating a clinical grasp and
resource-based practice
- possessing embodied knowledge
- seeing the big picture
- seeing the unexpected
• helping role
• diagnostic client-monitoring function
• effective management of rapidly changing
situations
• administering & monitoring therapeutic
interventions & regimens
• monitoring & ensuring quality health care
practices
• organizational & work-role performance
• teaching or coaching function