Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN
Professor Emerita,
University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Benner is a professor emerita at the University of
California School of Nursing. She is a noted nursing educator and author of From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power
in Nursing Practice, which has been translated into twelve languages. She
pioneered the use of Interpretive Phenomenology in Nursing. She
directed The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching National
Nursing Education Study, Educating
Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation. She collaborated with the Carnegie Preparation
for the Professions studies of clergy, engineering, law, and medicine. Dr. Benner
is designated as a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing. She was
elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and Danish Society
for Nurses. Her work has influence beyond nursing in the areas of clinical
practice and clinical ethics. She is the first author of Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Ethics and Clinical Judgment (2010)
with Christine Tanner and Catherine Chesla, and she has coauthored twelve other
notable books including a 2nd Edition of Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care: .A Thinking-In-Action Approach.