This text describes the major themes important in successfully developing and implementing the advanced practice nursing role-- Includes nursing, health belief, change, leadership and management, and teaching models and theories as they relate to advanced practice nursing-- Chapters discuss interrelationships inherent in interdisciplinary collaborative practice, as well as new models of managed care and its impact on advanced nursing practice-- Exercises focus on critical thinking and include activities to apply knowledge, such as performing critiques, conducting peer reviews, using analogies, drawing models to depict relationships among concepts, composing position papers and professional practice statements, and engaging in argument and debate