Brief VitaePatricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N. |
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EDUCATION:
| Pasadena City College | A.A. | 1964 | Nursing |
| Pasadena College | B.A. | 1964 | Nursing |
| University of California, San Francisco |
M.S. | 1970 | Medical-Surgical Nursing |
| University of California, Berkeley | Ph.D. | 1982 | Stress & Coping & Health |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
| 1966-67 | Head Nurse, Coronary Care Unit, Kansas City General Hospital, Kansas City, MO |
| 1967-68 | Medical Intensive/Coronary Care Unit, Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, CA |
| 1968 | Visiting Nurse, Visiting Nurses Association, Santa Clara County |
| 1969 | Intensive Care Staff Nurse, Stanford University Hospital & Medical Center, Stanford, CA |
| 1970-75 | Research Associate, University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing |
| 1976-78 | Research Assistant to Richard S. Lazarus, Stress & Coping & Aging, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 1979-81 | Project Director, AMICAE, San Francisco Consortium/University of San Francisco. Project: Achieving Methods of Intraprofessional Consensus, Assessment and Evaluation |
| 1982-89 | Associate Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing |
| 1991 | Acting Chair, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing |
| 1989-now | Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing |
HONORS AND AWARDS:
| 1969-70 | Title II Federal Traineeship-Public Health Service |
| 1977-78 | Predoctoral Fellowship-National Research Service Award, Division of Nursing, Health Resources Administration |
| 1982 | Selected as "Author of the Month" for "The Nursing Journal of the 80's" |
| 1984 | Book of the Year Award, Nursing Education; Book of the Year Award, Nursing Research, American Journal of Nursing, December 1984 for Benner, P., (1985) From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice, Reading, Massachusetts; Addison-Wesley. |
| 1989 | National League for Nursing, the Linda Richards Award for Leadership in Education. |
| 1990 | Excellence in Nursing Research/Education Award, Organization of Nurse Executives-California. |
| 1993 | "Alumnus of The Year" Award, Point Loma College (formerly Pasadena College). |
| 1994 | Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Nursing, United Kingdom. (F.R.C.N..) |
| 1996 | American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award for Advanced Nursing Practice for Benner, P., Tanner, C.A., Chesla, C.A. Expertise in Nursing Practice, Caring Clinical Judgment and Ethics. New York: Springer. |
| 1995-96 | Library Choice Award for Phillips, S. and Benner, P. (Eds.) (1994) The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions. Wasington, D.C., Georgetown University Press. |
PUBLICATIONS:
| 1985 | Benner, P. Quality of life: Explanation prediction and understanding in nursing science.Advances in Nursing Science, 1, 1-14. |
| 1985 | Benner, P. Why does nursing need a theory? The Japanese Journal of Nursing Research, 18(1), 3-30. |
| 1985 | Benner, P. (1985). General systems theory and nursing. The Japanese Journal of Nursing Research, 18(1), 61-71. |
| 1986 | Allen, D., Benner, P., Diekelmann, N. Three paradigms for nursing research - Methodological implications. In P. L. Chin (Ed), Nursing Research Methodology (pp. 23-38). Rockville, MD: Aspen Publications |
| 1987 | Benner, P., & Tanner, C. Clinical judgment: How expert nurses use intuition. American Journal of Nursing, 87(1), 23-31. Translated into German and published in a German Nursing Research Journal, 1990. |
| 1990 | Benner, P. The moral dimensions of caring. In J.S. Stevenson, & T. Tripp Reimer (Eds.), Knowledge About Care and Caring: State of the Art and Future Developments (pp. 5-17). Kansas City, MO: American Academy of Nursing, |
| 1990 | Benner, P., Tanner, C., & Chesla, C. The nature of clinical expertise in intensive care units. Anthropology of Work Review, Vol XI(3). Washington, DC: American Anthropology Association. |
| 1991 | Benner, P. "Phenomenology as theory and method. The Japanese Journal of Nursing Research, Spring. |
| 1991 | Benner, P. The role of narrative experience and community in expert ethical comportment. Advances in Nursing Science, 14(2), 1-21. |
| 1992 | Benner, P., Tanner, C., & Chesla, C. From beginner to expert: Gaining a differentiated clinical world in critical care nursing. Advances in Nursing Science, 14(3), 13-28. |
| 1992 | Janson-Bjerklie, S., Ferketich, S., Benner, P., & Becker, G. The clinical markers of asthma severity and risk: Importance of subjective as well as objective factors. Heart and Lung, 21(3), 265-272. |
| 1993 | Becker, G., Janson-Bjerklie, S., Benner, P., Slobin, K., Ferketich, S. The dilemma of seeking urgent care: Asthma episodes and emergency service use. Social Science and Medicine, 37(3), 305-313. |
| 1993 | Janson-Bjerklie, S., Ferketich, S., Benner, P., & Becker, G.Predicting the outcomes of living with asthma. Research in Nursing and Health 16(4), 241-250. |
| 1993 | Tanner, C., Benner, P., Chesla, C., & Gordon, D. The phenomenology of knowing a patient. Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 25(4), 273-280. |
| 1994 | Benner, P., Janson-Bjerklie, S., Ferketich, F., & Becker, G. Moral dimensions of living with a chronic illness: Autonomy, responsibility and limits of control. In P. Benner (Ed.), Interpretative Phenomenology: Embodiment Caring and Ethics (pp. 225-254). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing. |
| 1994 | Benner, P. (Ed). The tradition and skill of interpretive phenomenology. Interpretive Phenomenology (pp. 99-127). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers. |
| 1994 | Benner, P. (Ed). Introduction. Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring and Ethics (xiii-xvii). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers. |
| 1995 | Benner, P. A response by P.Benner to K.Cash, "Benner and expertise in nursing: A critique". Journal of Nursing Studies, 32, 527-534. |
| 1996 | Benner, P., Stannard, D., & Hooper, P.L. A "Thinking-in-Action" approach to teaching clinical judgment: A classroom innovation for acute care advanced practice nurses. 1:70-77. |
| 1996 | Benner, P. A dialogue between virtue ethics and care ethics. Theoretical Medicine 23,1-15. |
| 1996 | Benner, P., Gordon, S. Caring practice. In S. Gordon, P.Benner and N. Noddings. Caregiving, readings in knowledge, practice, ethics and politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 40-55. |
| 1996 | Benner, P. Survey reactions of Nursing leaders: A grim prognosis for health care? American Journal of Nursing, 96, 43. |
BOOKS:
| 1984 | Benner, P. From Novice to Expert: Promoting Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice. Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley. Translated into eight non-English languages. |
| 1984 | Benner, P. Work Meanings, and Stress and Coping of Mid-Career Men. New York: Praeger Scientific. |
| 1988 | Benner, P., & Wrubel, J. The Primacy of Caring, Stress and Coping in Health and Illness. Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley. Publication date: June 1988. Won 2 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards, Medical-Surgical Nursing and Issues in Health Care. |
| 1994 | Benner, P. (Ed.). Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring and Ethics in Health and Illness.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
| 1994 | Phillips, S., Benner, P. (Eds). The Crisis in Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions. Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press. |
| 1996 | Benner, P., Tanner, C., & Chesla, C. Expertise in Nursing: Caring, Clinical Judgment and Ethics. New York: Springer. Won Book of the Year Award, American Journal of Nursing, 1996. |
| 1996 | Gordon, S., Benner, P., & Noddings, N. (Eds). Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennysylvania Press. |
| 1998 | Benner, P., Hooper-Kyriakides, P., Stannard, D. Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Critical Care: A Thinking-In-Action Approach. Philadelphia: Saunders, In Press - To be published December, 1998. |