"From novice to expert" - the classic work on nursing competence and expertise, as well as the role of intuition in nursing, by Patricia Benner. Patricia Benner illustrates how experienced nurses with significant expertise behave in complex nursing situations and how their professional conduct differs from that of less experienced colleagues. She describes a professional nursing practice that requires a deeper understanding of the patient and demands that nurses adopt the patient's perspective in order to provide and shape individualized and respectful care. Benner outlines a nursing approach that maintains, protects, and enables the patient's self, which is compromised or threatened by illness, through caring, coping, and self-management.