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Benner earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in nursing from Pasadena College in 1964. She was given a Master of Science in Medical-Surgical Nursing from the University of California at San Francisco in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982.
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Health Dr. Benner focuses on the lived experience of being healthy and being ill. Health is defined as what can be assessed, whereas well being is the human experience of health or wholeness. Well being and being ill are understood as distinct ways of being in the world
Environment/ Situation Benner uses situation rather than environment because situation conveys a social environment with social definition and meanifulness. To be situated implies that one has a past, present, and future and that all of these aspects.influence the current situation.- Dr. Benner
Nursing Nursing is described as a caring relationship, an enabling condition of connection and concern. -Dr. Benner Caring is primary because caring sets up the possibility of giving and receiving help. Nursing is viewed as a caring practice whose science is guided by the moral art and ethics of care and responsibility.
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The Patricia Benner nursing theory of Skill Acquisition in Nursing or the from Novice to Expert model developed based on the study of the acquisition and development of skills by chess players and airline pilots in emergency situations. As the individual progress through these levels, they demonstrate changes using concrete experiences. Second, they move from analytic, rule based thinking to intuition. Third, the learners perception changes from a situation composed of equally relevant parts to a complex whole in which certain parts are more relevant than others. Fourth, they move from a detached observer to an actively involved performer.
Stage 1: Novice Beginners have had no experience of the situations in which they are expected to perform. Novices are taught rules to help them perform. The rules are context-free and independent of specific cases; hence the rules tend to be applied universally. The rule-
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Stage 2: Advanced Beginner Advanced Beginner is those who can demonstrate marginally acceptable performance, those who have coped with enough real situations to note, or to have pointed out to them by a mentor, the recurring meaningful situational components. These components require prior experience in actual situations for recognition. Principles to guide actions begin to be formulated. The principles are based on experience.
Stage 3: Competent Competence, typified by the nurse who has been on the job in the same or similar situations two or three years, develops when the nurse begins to see his or her actions in terms of long-range goals or plans of which he or she is consciously aware. For the competent nurse, a plan establishes a perspective, and the plan is based on considerable conscious, abstract, analytic, contemplation of the problem, The Conscious, deliberate planning that is characteristic of this skill levels help achieve efficiency and organization. The competent nurse lacks the speed and flexibility of the proficient nurse but does have a feeling of mastery and the ability to cope with and manage the many contingencies of clinical nursing. The competent person does not yet have enough experience to recognize a situation in terms of an overall picture or in terms of which aspects are most salient, most important.
Stage 4: Proficient The proficient performer perceives situations as whole rather than in terms of chopped up parts or aspects, and performance is guided by maxims. Proficient nurses understand
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Stage 5: The Expert The expert performer no longer relies on an analytic principle (rule, guideline, and maxim) to connect her or his understanding of the situation to an appropriate action. The expert nurse, with an enormous background of experience, now has an intuitive grasp of each situation and zeroes in the accurate region of the problem without wasteful consideration of a large range of unfruitful, alternative diagnosis and solutions. The expert operates from a deep understanding of the total situation.
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