Expertise or performance? Questioning the rhetoric of contemporary narrative use in nursing

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 631-638

  Nelson, Sioban ^a   McGillion, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benner; Critique; Expertise; Methodology; Narrative; Nurse; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

JOB PERFORMANCE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; SKILL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; NARRATION; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 4644313924     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03151.x     Document Type: Review

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