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FROM NOVICE TO EXPERT: EXCELLENCE AND POWERIN CLINICAL NURSING PRACTICE Patricia Benner Menlo Park, California: AddisonWesley Publishing Co., 1984, 307 pages, $14.95.
A most remarkable book! Benner presents a report of her descriptive research on the practice of nursing that is both informative and inspirational. The book is based on a dialogue with nurses about nursing - the "laying on of hands" level of nursing. Exemplars, or descriptions of clinical situations where "the nurse learned something about her practice or made a significant contribution to a patient's welfare," constitute the data. Benner's research involved seven schools of nursing and five hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area in...