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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages 129-139Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2007.01.005
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care; decision-making; expertise; intuition; memory; nursing; pattern recognition
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- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-1601] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [RES-000-23-1601] Funding Source: UKRI
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Several authors have highlighted the role of intuition in expertise. In particular, a large amount of data has been collected about intuition in expert nursing, and intuition plays an important role in the influential theory of nursing expertise developed by Benner [1984. From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice. Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, CA]. We discuss this theory, and highlight both data that support it and data that challenge it. Based on this assessment, we propose a new theory of nursing expertise and intuition, which emphasizes how perception and conscious problem solving are intimately related. In the discussion, we propose that this theory opens new avenues of enquiry for research into nursing expertise. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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