Empirical evidence of the Patricia Benner´s Theory in the professional activity of nursing bachelor degree

Abstract

Introduction: Cuban nurses should be aware that their profession is a system historically constituted by an ordered knowledge whose veracity is checked and points out every day during the passing of research and nursing practice.
Objective: To describe the level of empirical evidence of Patricia Benner’s theory; from the beginner to expert.
Material and Methods: This article is the result of an observational - descriptive study. To write this article, were used the method of analysis and synthesis, inductive - deductive, historical - logical, the hypothetical - deductive. It starts with a theory’s chronological study where the theory’s structure was broken down, and explained, treating one by one the proposals and main elements of the theory, applying it to the problem that bring about this article.
Results: Patricia Benner has developed a descriptive and interpretative compendium about clinical nursing. Patricia Benner’s theory; provides an opportunity to consider different ways of seeing and doing things, which is assumed as a stimulus to thought, in the opinion of the authors when it is studied the labor and professional progress of Nursing’s Bachelor, we understood how the changes that resulted in the labor and social environment are influenced by technological, economic, social and political factors.
Conclusions: The empirical evidence of Patricia Benner’s theory; is overwhelming, we consider that helps to increase the knowledge and interpretation of reality and to systematize and give an order to knowledge.

Keywords:Patricia Benner’s Theory, beginner, advanced beginner, competent, efficacious, expert.