Florence Nightingale, by name Lady with the lamp. She is also a foundational philosopher of modern nursing, statistician and social reformer. Nightingale’s theories were hugely powerful and her concerns for sanitation, military health and hospital planning established practices which are still in existence today.
By Nightingale’s footpath, there are a lot of nurses doing well and success in their carrier. They also perform a very good role in nursing. One of the famous ladies is Dr. Patricia Benner. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, San Francisco. She had done her BA in Nursing at Pasadena College. Also, she did her MS in medical/surgical nursing from UCSF. She successfully had done her PHD from …show more content…
In order for the novice nurse to develop skills, the nurse must be put into new clinical situations. Benner also states that novice nurses must be taught about a patient’s condition in objective and measureable parameters. This is done so the novice can recognize features of the patient’s condition without any situational experience. Novice practice is very limited and inflexible; they utilize strict rules to govern practice because they have limited to no clinical experience. Because of this inflexibility and rule based practice, the novice nurse cannot separate out the relevant pieces of the situation; instead all pieces are seen as equal. They act in a manner of “tell me what I need to do and I will do it” (Nursing Theories, …show more content…
Critical thinkers in nursing exhibit these habits of the mind: confidence, contextual perspective, creativity, flexibility, inquisitiveness, intellectual integrity, intuition, open-mindedness, perseverance, and reflection. Critical thinkers in nursing practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge.
Based on Benner’s theory, every nurse should be a critical thinker. The theory also helps nurses understand to solve the critical problems with smartly. As a psychiatric nurse, I must know what the activities should the patients involve so that, they spend their time wisely and they learnt what they can do when they have free time. when I came to psychiatric ward, I am really don’t know what the patient should do when their free time but now I know what to do till can organized their activities accordingly.