Stage 1.

Novice
• No experience
• Inflexible
• Governed by rules and regulation rather than experience

Stage 2. Advance Beginner

• Demonstrates marginally acceptable performance
• Recognizes meaningful aspects of a real situation
• Experienced enough real situations to make judgments about them

Stage 3. Competent
• 2 to 3 years experience
• Demonstrates organizational and planning abilities
• Differentiates important factors from less important aspects of care
• Coordinates multiple complex care demand

Stage 4. Proficient
• 3 to 5 years experience
• Perceives situations as whole
• Uses maxims as guides for what to consider in a situation
• Holistic understanding of client
• Focuses on long term goals

Stage 5. Expert
• Performance is flexible and high proficient
• No longer requires rules, guidelines or maxims to connect an understanding
situation
• Highly skilled intuitive and analytic ability in new situations
• Inclined to take a certain action because “it felt right”