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Nursing Theorist: Patricia Benner, R.N., P.h.D., FAAN,F.R.C.N. Professor Miller’s Tuesday Clinical Group: Amanda Nather, Bincy John, Brittany Coffin, Kimberly Roe, Julia Kitchings, and Natalie Shelton Patricia Benner, R.N., P.h.D., FAAN,F.R.C.N. Patricia Benner is a Professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Benner received her bachelors degree in nursing from Pasadena College, her masters degree in medical surgical nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Stress and Coping and Health under the direction of Hubert Dreyfus and Richard Lazarus.  Dr. Benner’s Theory Dr. Benner categorized nursing into 5 levels of capabilities: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert. She believed experience in the clinical setting is key to nursing because it allows a nurse to continuously expand their knowledge base and to provide holistic, competent care to the patient. Her research was aimed at discovering if there were distinguishable, characteristic differences in the novice’s and expert’s descriptions of the same clinical incident. Four Domains of Nursing Paradigm: Client/ Person “The person is a self-interpreting being, that is the person does not come into the world predefined but gets defined in the course of living a life.”- Dr. Benner Health Dr. Benner focuses on the lived experience of being healthy and being ill. Health is defined as what can be assessed, whereas well being is the human experience of health or wholeness. Well being and being ill are understood as distinct ways of being in the world. Environment/Situation Benner uses situation rather than environment because situation conveys a social environment with social definition and meanifulness. “To be situated implies that one has a past, present, and future and that all of these aspects….influence the current situation.”-