Uncovering the Knowledge Embedded in Clinical Nursing Practice -- Differences Between Practical and Theoretical Knowledge -- Knowledge Embedded in Expertise -- Extending Practical Knowledge -- Common Meanings -- Assumptions, Expectations, and Sets -- Paradigm Cases and Personal Knowledge -- Maxims -- Unplanned Practices -- The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition Applied to Nursing -- Methods -- Interpretation of Data -- Novice -- Advanced Beginner -- Competent -- Proficient -- Expert -- The Meaning of Experience -- An Interpretive Approach to Identifying and Describing Clinical Knowledge -- Performance Measurements -- Identifying Domains and Competencies -- Domains of Nursing Practice -- The Helping Role -- The Healing Relationship: Creating a Climate for and Establishing a Commitment to Healing -- Providing Comfort Measures and Preserving Personhood in the Face of Pain and Extreme Breakdown -- Presencing: Being with a Patient -- Maximizing the Patient's Participation and Control in His or Her Own Recovery -- Interpreting Kinds of Pain and Selecting Appropriate Strategies for Pain Management and Control -- Providing Comfort and Communication Through Touch -- Providing Emotional and Informational Support to Patients' Families -- Guiding Patients Through Emotional and Developmental Change -- The Teaching-Coaching Function -- Timing: Capturing a Patient's Readiness to Learn -- Assisting Patients to Integrate the Implications of Illness and Recovery into Their Lifestyles
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index
