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Sunday, August 20, 2017

HOW THEORY INFLUENCES NURSES TODAY


                                                       How Benner's theory 
                                                     affect modern practice




Patricia Benner’s Theory of Skill Acquisition: From Novice to Expert had greatly contributed to our knowledge and nursing practice today. In this theory, Benner explained that theories and formal models of nursing should only be utilized by the novice nurses in order to give compensation for being inexperienced (Gardner, 2012). However, once these nurses have acquired appropriate clinical experience to develop their clinical eye and judgment, intuition is then better utilized in providing nursing care to patients in certain instances.   Benner has given emphasis on the irrational aspect of providing quality nursing practice once a nurse reached the expert level and is guided more of what we call as “intuition”.
Darbyshire (1994) has discussed how the works of Benner has shown the public the significance of having a skilled nursing practice. In Benner’s theory, much of the spotlight is on developing the nurse’s skill which will then impact the way the patients will be taken care of and how safe and efficient practice will be utilized. Similarly, Karen S.  Hill (2010) in her article mentioned that despite the sufficient theoretical nursing knowledge that an entry level nurse possesses, knowledge acquired from experience is necessary for this new nurse to improve and provide safer levels of practice. Nursing practice become safer as each nurse progresses from novice level. This was further proven by a study performed by Dunton together with his colleagues in 2007, where data revealed that for every one year increase of the total RN experience, the rate of fall incidences in a unit decreased by 1% lower.  Safe and quality nursing practice improves with the higher years of experience of nurses (Hill, 2010).  Benner wanted to stay away and to emphasize the importance of passionate and quality care.
Benner’s theory has contributed greatly in recognizing the great value of apprenticeship in providing education in training nurses.  This can be seen in today’s way of educating nurses by having their clinical rotations as part of their curriculum. Also, in the hospital set up, entry level nurses are initially paired with a senior nurse for a few weeks to do their clinical rotations together as a part of training the novice nurse in the clinical set-up and in helping the novice nurse develop his or her clinical eye.  According to Gardner’s article in 2012, Dreyfus indicated that the best way in educating students would be by preferring to utilize an apprenticeship model instead of theoretical ones.

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