Benner's Theory and Clinical Competence in Nursing Practice

This report discusses Benner's theory of clinical competence in nursing practice, including the five stages of competence and how nurses transition from novice to expert. It also covers the concept of advanced practice, the functions of novice versus advanced nursing care practice, and links Benner's theory to NMBA standards of care practice.

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Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Outline Benner's theory...............................................................................................................1
Illustrate five stages of clinical competence and how the care nurse's transitions through to
become an expert.........................................................................................................................2
Describe term advance practice...................................................................................................3
Determine functions of a novice versus an advanced nursing care practice................................3
Link Benner's theory to NMBA standards of care practice.........................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The clinical care nursing expertise is generally central to the quality patient care. The
study on the factors which can contribute to expertise generally been concentrated greatly on an
individual nursing features towards the exclusion of a contextual components. In this, these such
contextual components can involve the educational as well as experience levels of a care nurse's
co-workers and environment of the nursing care practice as well. The care nursing should supply
the global with prepared Registered care nurse for a diverse range of roles and responsibilities
such as furnishing the direct care to the patient within the healthcare organizations, the care
nursing homes as well as the patients home. In addition to this, aiding to protect the well-being
of the society and the school populations, assisting with mobile care of a person and their
families as well, generally performing the clinical nurse specialist services. Furthermore
administering the care nursing services at both middle and top levels of the management and so
on. In this report, it will cover the brief description of Benner's theory associated with nursing
care. The report will cover the prime five stages of clinical competence in nursing profession that
can help a vulnerable patient to improve their health outcomes. In addition to this, there is also a
discussion about initial novice stage till advanced nursing care practices to improve the health
outcomes of a patient effectively (Lewis, 2018).
MAIN BODY
Outline Benner's theory.
Within healthcare sectors, the Benner's theory generally concentrate over a novice
learning of a care nurse as well as can adopting the specific clinical knowledges and
understandings as well as enhancing on the clinical competence in order to becoming an expert
when experiencing an ongoing various clinical conditions. The Benner's theory is generally
applicable to a diverse variety of conditions, consisting a nursing education, retention of the care
nurses who are graduate as well as their management and administration. The theory was
specifically derived from a Dreyfus Model of skill acquisition as well as drew from the
knowledge of a philosophy and engineering. In this, Benner has proposed that as a care nurse
learners can attempt to improve the competency, they can move through the basic five stages
such as Novice, advanced beginners, competent, proficient and expert as well (Benner’s Theory
in Global Nursing Education, 2018).
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Illustrate five stages of clinical competence and how the care nurse's transitions through to
become an expert.
A Benner's novice to an expert theory can presents a systematic pathway of
understanding how the learners such as whether a student or a new care nurse can develop the
effective skills as well as understanding of a care practice conditions or event with time. In
addition to this, proceeding from novice to the expert is generally a circular, instead of linear
process. As per the beginners, they do not essentially move systematically from one of the stage
to the other as well as can finally develop a competency in various skills. Rather than the
beginners can move from one stage to the another repeatedly as they can learn the new skills and
knowledges as well. The very five stages of the clinical competence are as mentioned below: Novice: In this particular stage, the beginners has had no earlier experience making them
struggle to decide which particular tasks are most applicable to fulfil. In this, the primal
potential strategies for both the skills and knowledge acquisition such as teach the simple,
objective concepts or attributes which can be easily determined. Advanced learner: In this stage, the beginner generally involve a real world conditions
which the recurrent component is quite easily determined when it is much more linked to
the rules and guidelines as well. In this, the primal potential strategies for both the skills
and knowledge acquisition such as enhance the assistance as well as empowerment in
setting the priorities towards the needs of a client by effectively giving the guidelines for
acknowledging the patterns. Competent: In this stage, the beginners has been on the care practice job for about 2 to 3
years and is able to visualize the specific actions in terms of goals or the plans as well as
works in an effective as well as an organized pathway. In this, the basic potential
strategies for both the skills and knowledge learning such as can offer in-service
education or possible opportunities as well (FROM NOVICE TO EXPERT, 2020). Proficient: In the stage, the beginners generally perform by simply using the pieces of
evidences which can give the directions to visualize a particular situation as a whole. In
this, the basic potential strategies for both the skills and knowledge learning such as using
the specific case study to stimulate the critical thinking more specifically within the
situations with the principles or the rules which are quite contradictory.
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 Expert: In the stage, the beginners can grasps a particular situation as well as can
understand what particular requirements to be fulfilled beyond the guidelines, rules and
maxims as well. In this, the basic potential strategies for both the skills and knowledge
learning such as furnishing effective opportunities for the nursing care experts in order to
share their effective skills and knowledges and also their analytical capabilities in order
to solve the new situations.
These such levels of the skills can express the alterations within the three aspects of the skilled
performance: the movement from relying on abstract principles to using the past experiences in
order to guide the actions. In addition, alterations in the perceptions of a beginners of a situation
as a whole part instead of the separate pieces as well as the passages from a detached observer to
an engaged performer, generally involved within the situation instead of simply outside of it. In
this, the Benner's theory from novice stage to the expert stage has altered the understanding of
what it generally means to be an expert within the care nursing field.
Describe term advance practice.
Within healthcare, the advanced clinical professionals generally come from a range of
healthcare professional backgrounds like pharmacy, care nursing, paramedics as well as
occupational therapies. This particular level of care practice is mainly designed to transform as
well as modernise the paths of the advance care practice, allowing the safe as well as effective
sharing of the skills across the conventional professional edge. The long-term plan of National
Health Services generally high spot how the advanced clinical care practice is central towards
aiding the transform the care service delivery and the better meet the local well-being
requirements by furnishing an enhanced capability, capacity, efficiency as well as productivity
among the multidisciplinary care team.
Determine functions of a novice versus an advanced nursing care practice.
The main function of the novice versus an advanced nursing care practice is that it can
instruct both the vulnerable patients and their novice associative as well as can familiarize them
with the rules of the ward as well. In addition to this, the learners care nurses can concentrate on
the specific tasks as well as can follow a to-do list, whereas, an expert care nurses can
specifically concentrate over a whole picture even while they are performing the specific tasks
(What is advanced clinical practice?, 2020).
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Link Benner's theory to NMBA standards of care practice.
In this, critically notion as well as analyse the nursing care practice-professional care
nursing competence, mainly referred by the Benner as a stages of the skill acquisition
particularly serves as a conceptual framework for such study. The critical thinking is specifically
an innate which is surrounded by the nursing care practice. The theory of Benner mainly claims
that the care nurses are given to adopt an expertise as well as awareness firstly via the steps
generally based on experiences. The experimental fractions specifically outcomes in critical
thinking potential (Johansen, 2022). Furthermore, advanced learners generally has begun to
figure out the rationale for the tasks that are specifically implemented evermore protective the
critical thinking skills are in vision:
 Engages in the professional and therapeutic relationship.
 Presents nurses to patients and the other well-being care team members as well as address
others as applicable.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that the novice stage to an expert theory can
be generally used as a set care clinical recommendations for regulating all the care practices
generally associated with the care nursing practices. In this, a hands on skill is quite essential for
the care nurse to develop professionally. A care nurse can go via various difficulties or
challenges in order to become an expert from a novice. From the discussion, it is also concluded
that the care nursing practices can also boost the patient care results.
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