From Novice to Expert: Benner's legacy for nurse education Like most nurse academics, I am familiar with the basic tenets of Benner's seminal book From Novice to Expert, although like many of my colleagues, I had never sat down and read it from cover to cover. On properly reading it for the first time, I was struck by a double and somewhat unexpected irony. Firstly, that one of the most influential books on nursing theory in recent times is, if not antitheoretical, then most certainly atheoretical. Thus, in the foreword to the original edition, Myrtle Aydelotte praises Benner for giving ‘a lucid, colourful description [rather than theory] of nursing practice as rendered by expert nurses’ (Benner, 1984, p. v, my emphasis and brackets). She goes on to say that, ‘The value of this document lies in the understanding it gives us about the mystery of expert practice and in the creation of an awareness that we must respect this mystery, rather than pretend that we can dispel or standardise it by submitting it to rules, proc
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