Patricia Sawyer Benner is a nursing theorist, academic and author.
18 Facts About Patricia Benner
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Patricia Benner is known for one of her books, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice.
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Patricia Benner is a professor emerita at the University of California, San Francisco UCSF School of Nursing.
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Patricia Benner, her parents and her two sisters moved to California when she was a child.
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Patricia Benner's parents were divorced when she was in high school, which she described as a difficult event for her entire family.
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Patricia Benner decided to become a nurse while working in a hospital admitting department during college.
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Patricia Benner earned an associate degree in nursing from Pasadena City College simultaneously with a bachelor's degree from Pasadena College in 1964.
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Patricia Benner married Richard Benner in 1967 and they had two children.
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Patricia Benner earned a master's degree in nursing from UCSF in 1970 and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982.
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Early in her academic career, Patricia Benner led the Achieving Methods of Intraprofessional Consensus, Assessment and Evaluation Project.
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Patricia Benner held an endowed chair at UCSF in ethics and spirituality for several years.
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Patricia Benner is a professor emerita at the UCSF School of Nursing and is a program leader with the school's PhD program in nursing health policy.
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Patricia Benner wrote her influential book, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice, in 1984, based on her work with the AMICAE Project.
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Patricia Benner adapted the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition to the careers of nurses.
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Patricia Benner's model was based on qualitative research rather than quantitative studies, which has opened it to some criticism.
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Patricia Benner was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 2011.
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Dr Patricia Benner's theory focuses on how nurses acquire their nursing knowledge, particularly how a nurse could gain knowledge or "know-how" without learning a theory, referred to as "know-that".
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Patricia Benner applies this theory to the nursing profession by outlining the same five stages or levels of clinical competency: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert.