Health care reform: an opportunity for nursing -- Managed care organizational structures -- Managed care organizational strategies used to achieve organizational goals -- Nursing involvement in quality of care issues -- Nursing case management: a managed care organizational strategy -- Use of nurse extenders -- Advanced practice nurses: acute-care settings -- Nurse case management: acute-care hospital practice -- Automated clinical pathways in the patient record: legal
implications -- Clinical pathway outcome research -- Nurse case management in community settings -- Population-based nurse case management -- Advanced practice nurses as case managers -- Advanced practice roles in community settings: community health clinics -- Advanced nurse collaborative practice in a primary care setting.