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Patricia Sawyer Benner is a nursing theorist, academic and author. She is known for one of her books, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice (1984). Benner described the stages of learning and skill acquisition across the careers of nurses, applying the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition to nursing practice.
Occupation. Professor of Nursing. Rozzano Locsin is a Filipino-American Professor of Nursing at Tokushima University, and Professor Emeritus at Florida Atlantic University .Locsin is the author of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice. He also edited and co-authored three additional books, including A Contemporary ...
Nursing management consists of the performance of the leadership functions of governance and decision-making within organizations employing nurses. It includes processes common to all management like planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. It is common for registered nurses to seek additional education to earn a Master of ...
A clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice nurse who can provide advice related to specific conditions or treatment pathways.According to the International Council of Nurses (ICN), an Advanced Practice Nurse is a registered nurse who has acquired the expert knowledge base, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded practice, the characteristics of ...
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that promotes evidence-based best practices within the healthcare leadership, organizational development, and international healthcare spaces. NCHL operates three organizational membership programs – the Leadership Excellence Networks (LENS ...
Army Nurse Corps, Rutgers University, World Health Organization. Hildegard E. Peplau (September 1, 1909 – March 17, 1999) [1] was an American nurse and the first published nursing theorist since Florence Nightingale. She created the middle-range nursing theory of interpersonal relations, which helped to revolutionize the scholarly work of nurses.
In 1976, Sister Callista Roy developed the Adaptation Model of Nursing, a prominent nursing theory. Nursing theories frame, explain or define the practice of nursing. Roy's model sees the individual as a set of interrelated systems (biological, psychological and social). The individual strives to maintain a balance between these systems and the ...
Loretta C. Ford (née Pfingstel; [1] born December 28, 1920) [2] is an American nurse and the co-founder of the first nurse practitioner program. Along with pediatrician Henry Silver, Ford started the pediatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1965. In 1972, Ford joined the University of Rochester as founding dean of ...