Co-authors

Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, FRCN
Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, FRCN

Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, FRCN

Dr. Benner is the Chief Faculty Development Officer for Educating Nurses. She is a noted nursing educator and author of From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Nursing Practice. Dr. Benner was the Director of this Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching National Nursing Education Study, which is the first such study in 40 years. She additionally collaborated with the Carnegie Preparation for the Professions studies of Clergy, Engineering, Law and Medicine. Dr. Benner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. Her work has influence beyond nursing in the areas of clinical practice and clinical ethics. She is the first author of Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Ethics and Clinical Judgment withChristine Tanner and Catherine Chesla, and has co-authored 12 other notable books including a March, 2011 Second Edition of Clinical Wisdom and Interventions in Acute and Critical Care: A Thinking-in-Action Approach with Pat Hooper Kyriakidis and Daphne Stannard.

Molly Stuphen, Ph. D.
Molly Stuphen, Ph. D.

Molly Stuphen, Ph. D.

Dr. Molly Sutphen is the former Research Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Co-Director of this Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching National Nursing Education Study. She is also an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco where she teaches in the Global Health Care Master’s Program. She is an historian of public health, medicine and nursing. She has taught history to medical, pharmacy, and nursing students, and taught ethics in the School of Nursing at the University of California San Francisco. She received her doctorate from Yale University in the history of medicine and the life sciences.

Vickie Leonard, R.N., F.N.P, Ph.D.
Vickie Leonard, R.N., F.N.P, Ph.D.

Vickie Leonard, R.N., F.N.P, Ph.D.

Dr. Leonard is a family nurse practitioner and Child Care Health Consultant at the UCSF California Childcare Health Program (CCHP). She is a trainer for Child Care Health Consultants in California, and does trainings, presentations and writes educational materials on health and safety issues for child care providers in the state. She has taught Health Policy and Ethics and Pediatrics in the nurse practitioner program at the University of San Francisco, and has worked with children and families with chronic illnesses in pediatric subspecialty clinics. Vickie was a research associate for the Carnegie national nursing education study and participated in the data collection, analysis and writing up of the findings. She has also consulted on a longitudinal research study of teen mothers and their infants for the past 15 years. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco.

Lisa Day, B.S.N., C.N.S., CCRN, Ph.D.
Lisa Day, B.S.N., C.N.S., CCRN, Ph.D.

Lisa Day, B.S.N., C.N.S., CCRN, Ph.D.

Lisa Day graduated from Long Beach City College in California with an Associate Degree in nursing in 1984. She has worked as a nurse in a post-anesthesia recovery room, a medical cardiac intensive care unit, and a neuroscience-critical care unit, and completed her B.S.N, M.S. and Ph.D. (with Patricia Benner) at UCSF School of Nursing. She taught pre-licensure nursing in an accelerated second degree program for 8 years before recently returning to clinical practice and is now the Clinical Nurse Specialist for Neuroscience and Critical Care at UCSF Medical Center. Dr. Day has been involved as a consultant in several projects related to nursing education including the RWJ-funded Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN); the Helene Fuld Health Trust-funded project Evaluating the Outcomes of Accelerated Nursing Education; evaluation of the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education (OCNE); and participated in the 2008 National League for Nursing think tank on Transforming Clinical Nursing Education.