Unit 1. The evolution of advanced practice -- Advanced practice nursing: doing what has to be done: radicals, renegades, and rebels / Lynne M. Dunphy, Nancy K. Smith, and Ellis Quinn Yongkin -- Emerging roles of the advanced practice nurse / Anne Keane and Deborah Becker -- Role development: a theoretical perspective / Lucille A. Joel -- Education for advanced practice / H. Michael Dreher -- Global perspectives on advanced nursing practice / Madrean Schober and Fadwa A. Affara -- Unit 2. The practice environment -- Payment for advanced practice nursing service: past, present, and future / Karen R. Robinson -- Advanced practice nurses and prescriptive authority / Jan Towers -- Credentialing and clinical privileges and the advanced practice nurse / Ann H. Cary and Mary C. Smolenski -- The kaleidoscope of collaborative practice / Alice F. Kuehn -- Participation of the advanced practice nurse in managed care and quality initiatives / Rita Munley Gallagher -- Resource management / Christina M. Graf and Eileen D. Flaherty -- Mediated roles: working through other people / Thomas D. Smith, Maria L. Vezina, and Mary E. Samost -- Reporting relationships: follow the money / Mary Lou S. Etheredge -- Unit 3. Competency in advanced practice -- Evidence-based practice / Deborah C. Messecar and Christine A. Tanner -- Advocacy and the advanced practice nurse / Karen Piren and Susan C. Rein hard -- Case management and advanced practice nursing / Patricia M. Haynor [and others] -- The advanced practice nurse and research / Pamela F. Cipriano and Suzanne M. Burns -- The advanced practice nurse and complementary therapies / Rothlyn P. Zahourek -- Basic skills for teaching and the advanced practice nurse / Marilyn H. Oermann -- Culture as a variable in practice / Mary Masterson Germain -- Conflict resolution: an essential competency in advanced practice / Phyllis Beck Kritek and Lucille A. Joel -- Unit 4. Ethical, legal, business acumen -- Evaluation of the advance practice nurse: cost efficiency, accomplishments, trends, and future development / Jane M. Flanagan and Dorothy A. Jones -- Promoting advanced practice nurses to the public / Donna A. Gaffney -- Starting a practice and a practice management / Judith Barberio -- The advanced practice nurse as employee or independent contractor: legal and contractual considerations / Kathleen M. Gialanella and Kammie Monarch -- The law, the courts, and the advanced practice nurse / Virginia Trotter Betts, David Keepnews, and Kammie Monarch -- Malpractice insurance / Sharon E. Muran, Amy Muran Felton, and Marie Infante -- Ethics and the advanced practice nurse / Gladys L. Husted and James H. Husted -- Bonus chapter on DavisPlus: Measuring advanced practice nurse performance: outcome indicators, models of evaluation, and the issue of value / Shirley Girouard.