Who is patricia benner?who are her parents?

Question

we are having a play about patricia benner's life.we need to know about her background?by the way i'm referring to patricia benner,one of the nursing theorists. who can help me? thank you.

Answer 1

Here are some possible sources:

Books by Benner

The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring ... - 1994 - 206 pages

Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment Caring ... - 1994 - 404 pages

Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge Practice ... - 1996 - 336 pages

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Patricia Benner - Faculty Profile - UCSF School of Nursing ...

$24000 allocated to Patricia Benner/UCSF to do a qualitative study of everyday management of cost constraints and limitations in ICUs. ...

nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/ffbennp.htm

Benner, Patricia

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Patricia Benner

Patricia Benner: From novice to expert: Excellence and power in clinical nursing practice. In A. M. Tomey & M. R. Alligood (Eds.), Nursing theorists and ...

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Nurse Theorists

Patricia Benner was interested in the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition and applied it to nursing. Her area of concern was not how to do nursing but, ...

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Answer 2

These sites should help.

Answer 3

Patricia Benner,

R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., F.R.C.N.



Patricia Benner is a Professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Benner received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Pasadena College, her master's degree in medical surgical nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Stress and Coping and Health under the direction of Hubert Dreyfus and Richard Lazarus.

Dr. Benner is the author of nine books including From Novice to Expert, named an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year for nursing education and nursing research in 1984, and The Primacy of Caring, co-authored with Judith Wrubel, named Book of the Year in 1990, also in two categories. Her books have been translated into eight languages. Her most recent books are: Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring and Ethics in Health and Illness, and The Crisis of Care, with Susan Phillips, both published in 1994, Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment, and Ethics, with Christine Tanner and Catherine Chesla, also named a Book of the Year in 1996, and Caregiving, with Suzanne Gordon and Nel Noddings, also published in 1996. To be published in December, 1998, is Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Critical Care: A Thinking-In-Action Approach, with Pat Hooper-Kyriakidis and Daphne Stannard (W.B. Saunders).

Dr. Benner is an internationally noted researcher and lecturer on health, stress and coping, skill acquisition and ethics. Her work has had wide influence on nursing both in the United States and internationally, for example in providing the basis for new legislation and design for nursing practice and education for three states in Australia. She was recently elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. Her work has influence beyond nursing in the areas of clinical practice and clinical ethics.

She has been a staff nurse in the areas of medical-surgical, emergency room, coronary care, intensive care units and home care. Currently, her research includes the study of nursing practice in intensive care units and nursing ethics.



Patricia Brushett was born in the United States on May 10, 1955. She has always resided in the United States. Her parents are Ethel and Donald Brushett. They are Graham and Evan's grandparents.

When Patricia was born, Ethel was then and still is a Canadian citizen. Her father, Donald, once a Canadian citizen, became a naturalized American citizen on February 23, 1955, about three months before Patricia was born. At that point in time, he was no longer a Canadian citizen.

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