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Patricia Benner
American nursing theorist (born 1942)
Patricia Sawyer Benner is a nursing theorist, academic and author.
Middle range theory patricia benner biography
She is known for one of her books, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice (1984). Benner described the stages of learning and skill acquisition across the careers of nurses, applying the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition to nursing practice.
Benner is a professor emerita at the University of California, San FranciscoUCSF School of Nursing.
Early life
Benner was born Patricia Sawyer in August 1942 in Hampton, Virginia.
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Benner, her parents and her two sisters moved to California when she was a child. Her parents were divorced when she was in high school, which she described as a difficult event for her entire family. Benner decided to become a nurse while working in a hospital admitting department during college.[1]
She earned an associate degree in nursing from Pasadena City College simultaneously with a ba