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Advanced nursing practice is recognized as an advanced level of nursing care that uses in-depth nursing knowledge and nursing expertise to meet health care needs. Unlike traditional nursing practice, advanced nursing practice involves numerous streams of activities like: analysis, knowledge synthesis, critical thinking, decision making, interpreting, evidence based practice and managerial/administrative roles. The evolution of advanced nursing practitioners happened when nurses were expected to take extra responsibility in addition to their traditional role. Due to lack of a sufficient number of doctors to attend to people in remote areas and in families, nurses were given the added responsibility to ...

Application of Benner’s Theory: from Novice to Expert

Introduction In her theory titled From Novice to Expert, Dr. Patricia Benner introduced the idea that expert nurses gain the skills and comprehension of patient care not merely by undergoing a rigorous educational program but also by being exposed to a multitude of experiences. According to Dr. Benner (1984), one can gain the needed skills without ever learning the theory. Therefore, she proposes that the development of knowledge and skills in a pragmatic field such as nursing, calls for exposure to practical knowledge of clinical experience. Benner’s theory stresses on the importance of practical knowhow and proposes that experience is a ...

Over the years the nursing sector has seen major improvements from just having a focus on skills and tasks only but it also includes the basis theory. Putting the nursing theories into practice the nursing profession consists of a deeper understanding of exactly what a professional nurse should look like and s/he should care for the patients. Simon Roach came up with six C’s that have helped develop the nursing sector. The six C’s are said to be attribute characteristics that will help in the identification of the specific caring behaviors that a nurse should practice whenever giving care to a patient. ...