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University of California, San Francisco
CURRICULUM VITAE
Prepared December 22, 2014
Name: Patricia E. Benner, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N. Step VIII, Emeritus
: Professor, Emeritus Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Present Distinguished Visiting Professor, Seattle University Present
EDUCATION
Dates Attended Institution and Location
Degree conferred,
titles, or status Major Subject
1960-1964 Pasadena College B.A. Nursing
1962-1964 Pasadena City College A.A. Nursing
1969-1970 University of California,
San Francisco, School of Nursing
M.S. Medical-Surgical
Nursing 1975-1982 University of California,
Berkeley, School of Education
Ph.D. Education;
Stress, Coping and health Selected Honors and Awards
2002 Thelma Shobe Cook Endowed Chair, Ethics and Spirituality. UCSF, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
2002 Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to National Council of State Boards of Nursing. August, 2002.
2003 Benner, P. The Institute for Nursing Health Care Leadership, Boston, MA: Celebration of 20 years of collecting and extending clinical wisdom, experiential learning, and caring practices. September 21-23, 2003.
Benner, P. The Adele Herwitz Distinguished Scholar. Commission on
Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , December 3, 2004.
2004 Products-American Association of Critical Care Nurses Pioneering Spirit Award. This award recognizes significant contributions that influence acute and critical care nursing.
2004 Sage Award for Contributions to Nursing Leadership, Center for Nursing Leadership University of Minnesota October 10-12, 2004
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
The American Organization of Nurses Executives (AONE) Excellence in Research Award, April 2007.
Ranked as 4th most influential Nurse in the Last 60 Years by readership of Nursing Standard, U.K.
AJN Book of the Year Award for Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation
Prose Award for Scholarly Writing for Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation
NLN Excellence in Leadership Award for Nursing Education
American Academy of Nursing. Honored as a Living Legend for contributions to Nursing
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Award, Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care: A Thinking-in-Action Approach. New York: Springer
BOOKS
1979+ Benner, P. & Benner, R. Work Entry for New Nurses: A Troubled Sponsorship. NewYork: Tiresias Press.
1984 x+ Benner, P. From Novice to Expert: Promoting Excellence and Career Development in Clinical Nursing Pactice. Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley. Book of the Year Award, American Journal of Nursing. [Translated into Spanish, Japanese, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, French, German, Russian, Dutch and Portuguese] and is widely used as a text. Forms the basis for many nursing curricula and the basis for clinical promotion programs. Millenial Edition published in 2001 by Prentice Hall with a new extensive Foreword. Won Book of the Award for 2001.
1984+ Benner, P. Work Meanings, and Stress and Coping of Mid-Career Men. New York: Praeger Scientific Press.
1988 x Benner, P., & Wrubel, J. The Primacy of Caring, Stress and Coping in Health and Illness. MenloPark: Addison-Wesley. Publication date: June 1988. Reviewed positively Washington Post; Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship; won the following 2 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards: Medical-Surgical Nursing and Issues in Health Care AJN Book of the Year Awards. Translated into Japanese, Finnish and German.
1994x+ Benner, P. (Ed.). Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring and Ethics in Health and Illness. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
1994 Phillips, S., & Benner, P. The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring
Practices in the Helping Professions. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Won Librarians’ Choice Book of the Year for Academic Books in 1995.
1996 Gordon, S., Benner, P., Noddings, N. (Eds.) Caregiving Readings in knowledge, practice, ethics and politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
1996x+ Benner, P., Tanner, C., & Chesla, C. Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment and Ethics. New York: Springer. Won Book of the Year Award for
American Journal of Nursing, 1997. I developed the theoretical and methodological approach, wrote the introduction and five of the thirteen chapters, and edited all other chapters.
1999x+ Benner, P., Hooper-Kyriakides, P., Stannard, D. Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Critical Care: A Thinking-In-Action Approach . I developed the theoretical and
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and edited all other chapters. Page proofs completed. Please see pre-publication book reviews. Won AJN Book of the Year Award, in Advanced Clinical Practice; Nursing Research and Education.
2004 The use of nursing narratives for reflecting on ethical and clinical judgment. (2004) Shorinsha Publishers. Tokyo, Japan.
2009 Benner, P, Sutphen, M., Leonard, V., Day, L., Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation. Carnegie Foundation and Jossey Bass: San Francisco
Benner, P., Tanner, C., & Chesla, C. Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment and Ethics. 2nd Edition New York: Springer.
Benner, P., Malloch, K. & Weeks (2009) Nursing Pathways for Patient Safety. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Elsevier International Press.,
2010 Chan, G., Brykczynski, K. A., Malone, R., Benner, P. Interpretive Phenomenology for Health Care Research. Indianapolis, Ind: Sigma Theta Tau.
2011 Benner P., Hooper-Kyriakides P., Stannard D. (2011) (Second Edition, first edition 1999) Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care: A Thinking-In-Action Approach. New York: Springer Publishers
SELECTED ORIGINAL ARTICLES
2000*X Benner, P. The roles of embodiment, emotion and lifeworld for rationality and agency in nursing practice. Nursing Philosophy. 1(1)5-19.
2000+* Benner,P. The wisdom of our practice. American Journal of Nursing, 100(10)100-103. 2001+* Puntillo, K.A., Benner, P., Drought, T., Drew, B., Stotts, N., Stannard, D., Rushton, C.,
& White, C. End-of-life issues in intensive care units: A National random survey on nurses’ knowledge and beliefs. American Journal Of Critical Care, 10(4)216-229. I took the lead in developing the survey instrument, writing the first draft, and editing all subsequent revisions.
2001+* Emami, A., Benner, P., Ekman, S.L. A sociocultural health model for late-in-life immigrants.” Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 12 (1) 15-24
2001+* Emami,A., Benner,P., Lipson, J.G., Ekman, S.L. Health as continuity and balance in life. Western Journal of Nursing Research.
2001 Benner, P. Developing clinical expertise in undergraduate education. Expert Nurse, (In Japanese) 12(15) 107-113.
Ethics Column, “Current Controversies,” American Journal of Critical Care 2001-2005 CONTRIBUTED ETHICS COLUMN IN EACH JOURNAL ISSUE 2002 Benner, P. (2002) On Nursing Narratives. Expert Nurse. (In Japanese)
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2002 X+* Benner, P., Sheets, V., Uris, P., Malloch, K., Schwed, K., & Jamison, D. Individual, practice, and system causes of errors in nursing: A taxonomy. Journal of Nursing Administration, 32(10), 509-523.
2002 Weiss, S.M., Malone, R.E., Merighi, J.R., & Benner, P. Economism, efficiency, and the moral ecology of good nursing practice. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 34(2), 95-119.
2004 Benner, P. The dangers of geneticism. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Press, May-June;49(3):260-262.
2005 Benner, P. Using the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to describe and interpret skill acquisition and clinical judgment in nursing practice and education. The Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society Special Issue: Human Expertise in the Age of the Computer, Vol. 24 (3) 188-199
Harrington, C., Crider, M.C., Benner, P. , & Malone, R. Advanced nursing training in health policy: Designing and implementing a new program. Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, 6(2) May 2005., 99-108.
Spichiger, E., Wallhagen, M., & Benner, P. Nursing as a caring practice from a phenomenological perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. Dec;19(4):.303-09
2005 Dracup, K. Cronenwett, L., Meleis, A., & Benner, P. Reflections on the doctorate of nursing practice. Nursing Outlook. Jul-Aug 53(4):177-182.
Benner, P, and Sutphen, M. (2005) “Addressing the Nursing Education and Work Environment Sides of the Current Nursing Shortage,” Kango no Kagaku (Science of Nursing), Special Issue: Nursing Strategy to Protect the Lives of People, December, 2005.
2007 Benner P. & Sutphen, M. (2007) Learning across the professions: The clergy, a case in point. Journal of Nursing Education, Vol. 46 No. 3 , 103-8
Benner, P. Sutphen, M, Leonard, V, & Day , L. Learning to See and Think Like a Nurse: Clinical Reasoning and Caring Practices. Journal of Japanese Society of Nursing Research, 30(1):20-24, 2007.
2009 Benner, P. (2011) “Formation in professional education: An examination of the relationship between theories of meaning and theories of the self.” Submitted to Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,.
2006 Benner, P., Sutphen, M., Leonard, V., Day, L., (2008) ”Formation and Ethical Comportment in Nursing.” In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE, September 2008, Volume 17, No. 5 173-176.
2007 Benner, P. & Sutphen, M. “Clinical Reasoning, Decision-Making in Action. Thinking Critically and Clinically,” in Ronda Hughes (ed.), Patient Safety
and Quality for Nursing Center for Primary Care, Prevention, & Clinical Partnerships, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
2008
Sunvisson, H., Haberman, B., Weiss, S. Benner, P. (2009) “Augmenting the Cartesian Medical Discourse with an Understanding of the Person’s Lifeworld, Lived body, Life Story and Social Identity” Journal of Nursing Philosophy. Septempter,2009.
2011 Benner, P. (Special Edition, September, 2011) “Formation in professional education: An examination of the relationship between theories of meaning and theories of the self. Jo. of Medicine and Philosophy. Forthcoming Special Edition on the Influence of Charles Taylor on Medical Ethics.
SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS
2000 Benner, P. “The quest for control and the possibilities of care.” In Wrathall, M. & Malpas. J., Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus. Vol. 2. MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass.
2001 Benner, P. “The phenomenon of care.” In Toombs, S.K. (ed.) Handbook of
Phenomenology and Medicine, Volume number 68 in the Philsophy and Medicine Series. Phenomenology and Medicine. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp.351-369. December, 2001 ISBN 0151-7 (Hardback) 1-4020-0200-9 (Paperback)
2003 Benner, P. “Finding the good behind the right: A dialogue between Nursing and Bioethics.” In Miller, F.G., Fletcher, J.C., & Humber, J.M., (Eds.), The nature and prospect of bioethics, interdisciplinary perspectives. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press.
Benner, P. “Clinical Reasoning, Articulating Experiential Learning in Nursing Practice.” In Slevin, O., & Basford, L. (Eds.) Theory and Practice of Nursing. Stanley Thornes Publisher: United Kingdom.
2005 Benner, P. “Stigma and personal responsibility: Moral dimensions of a chronic illness. In Purtillo, R.B., Jensen, G.M., & Brasic R. C., (Eds.), Educating for Moral Action A Sourcebook in Health and Rehabilitation Ethics Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Co.
Benner, P., & Leonard, V.W.,”Patient Concerns and Choices and Clinical Judgment in EBP” In Melnyk, B., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (Eds.). Evidence-Based Practice in
Nursing and Healthccare: A Guide to best practices. Philadelphia: Lippincott
2007 Benner, P (2007). “Experiential Learning, Skill Acquisition and Gaining Clinical Knowledge”. In Obsborn, K. Wraa, Watson , A. &, Wraa, C. (Eds.) Medical-Surgical Nursing. Saddleback New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
2008 .Benner, P.(2008) Interpretive Phenomenology” In Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Methods. Menlo Park, CA: Sage.
2009 Sutphen, M., Day, L., Benner, P., Leonard, V. () Chapter 5 Reflections on Clinical Education: Insights from the Carnegie Study. In N. Ard & T. Valiga, Clinical Nursing Education: Current Reflections. New York, NY: National League for Nursing
Benner, P., Sutphen, M. (2009) Professional Nursing Education: Teaching for a Complex Practice. Elsevier International Encyclopedia for Education. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Benner, P. “Experiential Learning, Skill Acquisition and Gaining Clinical Knowledge”. In Obsborn, K. Wraa, Watson , A. &, Wraa, C. (Eds.) Medical-Surgical Nursing.
Saddleback New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. 2010
2013
Benner, P.,
Celebrating the Work of Kari Martinsen: Celebrating the Centrality of Care and A Receptive Ethic A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Kari Martinsen.2014