The Novice to Expert Theory: proposed by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus as the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition which is aplied and modified to nursing by Patricia Benner.
Two personal characteristics that distinguish the successful evolution to the expert level are deliberate practice and willingness to take risks to go beyond the norm.
Common themes of a person that progresses through the novice to expert levels are moving away from relying on rules and explicit knowledge to learning to trust and follow their intuition and pattern matching, and better cognitive filtering where problems become a complete and unique whole where some bits are much more relevant than others, and becoming an involved part of the system itself instead of being a detached observer.
Advanced Beginner is still dependent on rules but begins to notice additional aspects that can be applied to related conditions as they gain more experience.
Proficient is the stage known as fluency as it is characterized by the progress of the learner from the step-by-step analysis and solving of the situation to the holistic perception of the entirety of the situation.
Experts repertoire of experienced situations is vast as they can now know what needsto beachieved thanks to the well-refined ability to exercise situational discrimination as they know how to achieve their goal.
Contextual concept: one moves from gathering data parts, connection of raw data parts, formation of meaningful contents and conceptualizing and joining those meaningful contents.
This knowledge step tries to find the answer to the HOW question where specific measures are pointed out, and the info derived in the previous step is used to answer this question.