Practising Nursing

Practising Nursing - Becoming Experienced is about how nurses conduct their everyday practice - and how they learn in the midst of that practice. Through interviews of excellent, experienced ward sisters and through observing them as they go about their everyday work, Martha MacLeod has revealed the complexity of nursing experience and practice. She shows how nurses practise and develop expertise through being attuned to experience. This book calls into question our current understanding about theory and practice, learning and experience, action and reflection. Through the words and actions of practising nurses, this book shows that instead of being separate, these notions are already inextricably intertwined in everyday practice. It shows new ways of seeing nursing and demonstrates its value. In these times of managerial and educational changes in health systems world-wide, this book will be valuable for all nurse educators, ward sisters, unit managers, directors of nursing and quality, and staff development officers. It can be used by nurses to reflect upon nursing practice, by educationalists to illustrate learning, and by researchers to examine new meanings in experience.