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Correspondence: Nur Guven Ozdemir, BSc., MSc., Research Assistant, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Health Science Faculty, Department Of Fundemantal Of Nursing. Office Address: İbn-I Sina Campus, Esenkoy, Kozlu, Zonguldak, Turkey E- Mail: [email protected]
Abstract
Individualized nursing care, which is a significant indicator for quality of nursing care, should be integrated into nursing education and practice. Benner's Novice to Expert Model guides nurses in care practices by providing the theoretical framework.This article aims to create awareness that the Benner's Novice to Expert Model could provide nurses with a valuable strategy to develop their individualized care perceptions and practices and to help enlighten the nursing discipline-specific studies.
Keywords: individualized care perceptions, nursing practices, nursing model
Introduction
Individualized nursing care is considered as indicator for the quality of care due to enhance positive patient outcomes (Acaroglu & Sendir, 2012; Papastavrou et al., 2015). Therefore, the importance of individuality in nursing education and patient careare emphasized by governments and health care policies nowadays (Cronenwett et al., 2007; Delaney, 2018; OECD, 2010; Suhonen, Gustafsson, Katajisto, Välimäki, & Leino-Kilpi, 2010a).
Individualized care constituting the basis of the holistic philosophy, values and ethical codes of nursing includes planning and practicing nursing care in accordance with the individual characteristics, requirements, preferences, experiences, feelings, perceptions and opinions of the individual and incorpating the individual to this process (Acaroglu & Sendir, 2012; Papastavrou et al., 2015; Suhonen et al., 2011; Suhonen, Stolt, Gustafsson, Katajisto, & Charalambous, 2014).On the other hand, in order to achieve the purpose of individualized care, the patients should comprehend nurses' these approaches, and express their own perceptions about these approaches by experiencing and feeling them in his/her own care (Acaroglu & Sendir, 2012). In this regard, it is important that nurses take into consideration factors such as their clinical condition, their personal life situation, and their preferences in order to promote patient participation in decision making (Idvall et al., 2012).
Nurses have an important role in evaluation and development of individualized care (Suhonen, Gustafsson, Katajisto, Välimäki, & Leino-Kilpi, 2010b). Nurses need experiences in order to develop individualized nursing care perceptions and practices that are effective in the use of nursing process and classification systems to provide quality nursing care (Baraki et al., 2017; Suhonen et al., 2010b). Novice nurses need to...