Expertise in nursing practice Book

	Foreword
	Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Clinical Judgment	1
2	The Relationship of Theory and Practice in the Acquisition of Skill	29
3	Entering the Field: Advanced Beginner Practice	48
4	The Competent Stage: A Time of Analysis, Planning, and Confrontation	78
5	Proficiency: A Transition to Expertise	114
6	Expert Practice	142
7	Impediments to the Development of Clinical Knowledge and Ethical Judgment in Critical Care Nursing	170
8	The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge	193
9	The Primacy of Caring and the Role of Experience, Narrative, and Community in Clinical and Ethical Expertise	232
10	Implications of the Phenomenology of Expertise for Teaching and Learning Everyday Skillful Ethical Comportment	258
11	The Nurse-Physician Relationship: Negotiating Clinical Knowledge	280
12	Implications for Basic Nursing Education	307
13	Implications for Nursing Administration and Practice	331
	App. A. Background and Method	351
	App. B. Description of Nurse Informants	373
	App. C. Background Questions for Interviews and Observations	375
	References and Bibliography	383
	Index	399