Institute of Health & Management: Benner's Theory and Nursing Practice

This report provides an overview of Benner's Novice to Expert theory and its application within the nursing field, based on a systematic review by Oshvandi et al. (2016). The report explores the theory's relevance across four key domains: nursing education, research, practice, and management. It highlights how the theory supports the development of clinical skills, promotes reflective thinking, and informs the design of competency-based assessment tools. The study emphasizes the theory's utility for both novice and experienced nurses, as well as nurse managers, educators, and researchers, in enhancing patient care and clinical environments. The report discusses the use of simulators in training, the development of competency scales, and the application of the theory in shaping management styles. Overall, the report underscores the significance of Benner's model in fostering safer and more effective nursing practices.

Benner’s theory
Novice to Expert

Introduction:
• An article by Oshvandi et al (2016)
• It had ultimately found out through the researches that indeed the novice
to expert theory had been found to be helpful where it can be applied in
any form of the predetermined clinical guiding, it can help to conduct all
the practices that remain linked with the nursing profession.
• The researchers had supported the fact that experiences as well as
proficiency are important for the nursing procedures

Overview:
• Experiences of nurses contribute in intuition as well as moral reasoning. It
also helps to gain personal knowledge.
• The researchers aimed to venture the application of this theory in the
nursing fields. They had chosen four fields.
• These are nursing practice as well as related clinical issues. The other
domains are nursing education, healthcare research and nursing
management.

Search procedure:
• The different databases that were utilised by the authors are SID,,
Magiran, PubMed, Irandoc, Iranmedex , Scopuse,
• The selected Keywords are"from novice to expert" and "Benner's
theory"
• 11 articles had been used in the study
• Quality was analysed with the STROPE Statement
• Data were accumulated and assessed to find out the application of
the theory in the nursing field

Domains covered
• A wide dearth of application possibility has been found which nurses of
various backgrounds and expertise can use so that they can develop their
nursing practices and the developing junior nurse’s skills.
• These are exhibited in four important domains which are:
• nursing education,
• nursing researches
• nursing practice, and
• nursing management,

The application of theory in the different
nursing domains and clinical issues:
• can be applied as a strong foundation for development as well as
improvement of the nursing career as well as clinical problems
• aims, scopes and practical characteristics that had been found in the
theory can help in constructing a bedrock for different thinking based
actions

(cont)
• helps in promoting reflective thinking as well as determining the nursing
expertise
• helps in development of a system that uses the performance of nursing
profession in evaluating as well as providing incentives, these were mainly
based on the expertise and experience of them

Application of theory in nursing education:
• nursing practitioners can successfully expand their practical knowledge as
well as their skills through actual experiences
• simulators act as useful training tools and can be utilised for providing
nurses with important skills in the novice and advanced novice steps
• nursing instructors can use stimulators for facilitating progress for the
students, so that they can gain clinical competencies

The application of this theory in nursing
research:
• In researches, new tools had been designed and developed based on the
Benner’s model
• One of such tools is the self-reporting competency tool for nurses
• Another tool was the nurse competence scale as well as the psychometric
test based on the novice to expert theory
• These tools helped in determining the the competency level of the
professionals

The application of theory in nursing
management:
• This theory helps in development of aesthetics management style for
clinical environments
• This leadership style is the style that is “not in contradiction with other
styles of management and is indicative of how a nurse perceive art and
aesthetics in general nursing”
• Also helpful to distinguish novice managers from that of higher level of
competency

Conclusion:
• Benner’s model of Novice to Expert can be used by nursing students,
educators, researchers and managers in developing their duties and
responsibilities
• It would help in ensuring safer development of clinical practice and clinical
environment helping to ensure patient satisfaction.

bibliography:
• Oshvandi, K., Moghadam, A. S., Khatiban, M., Cheraghi, F., Borzu, R., &
Moradi, Y. (2016). On the application of novice to expert theory in nursing;
a systematic review. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, 9(4), 3014-3020.