The rural context and nursing practice / Angeline Bushy -- Rural nurse transition-to-practice programs / Deana L. Molinari -- Quality of care and patient safety : the evidence for transition-to-practice programs / Nancy Spector and Josephine H. Silvestre -- Dual relationships and rural nurse's transition to practice : a Canadian ethnographic study / Kathryn H. Crooks -- Rural nurse perceptions of organizational culture and the intent to move / Deana L. Molinari, Ashvin R. Jaiswal, and Teri Peterson -- Women's health and nursing practice in rural Canada / Beverly D. Leipert -- Place-based practice : a New Zealand nursing education model / Jean Ross -- Rural nursing in the Australian context / Karen Louise Francis and Elisabeth R. Jacob -- University HealthSystem Consortium and American Association of Colleges of Nursing Nurse Residency Program / Debra A. McElroy and Kathy McGuinn -- National Council of State Boards of Nursing's transition-to-practice regulatory model / Josephine H. Silvestre and Nancy Spector -- Northwest Rural Nurse Residency / Deana L. Molinari and Tamara Hollinger-Forrest -- Vermont Nurses in Partnership model / Susan A. Boyer -- North Carolina : Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses and evidence-based transition-to-practice program / Mary P. "Polly" Johnson, Vincent P. Hall, and Joyce W. Roth -- Washington State : Rural Outreach Nursing Education program / Helen Hing Kuebel and Karen L. Joiner -- Alaska frontier : statewide competency development initiative / Cynthia J. Roleff, Julie McNulty, and Jill Montague -- New Mexico : nurse residence collaborative model / Anna von Dielingen -- The Oregon N2K initiative : from incumbent worker to nurse / Gary W. Wappes -- Rural preceptors' concerns with nursing student evaluation / Olive June Yonge [and others] -- Appreciative inquiry : a model for positive change and innovation / Kristen Crusoe -- The business case for rural transition to practice / Linda A. Tieman -- Conversation with a rural director of nurses / Nancy Asay and Deana L. Molinari -- Professional clinical education model : an instructional design / Deana L. Molinari -- To be or to do? / Deana L. Molinari -- Rural distance education delivery and design / Jayne Josephsen -- Simulation in nursing continuing education : the wherefore's and when-to's / Angeline Bushy and Beverly J. Hewett -- Program evaluation and outcome measurement / Deana L. Molinari and Angeline Bushy -- Specialty topics : genetics, genomics, and informatics in rural nursing / Christine F. Mladenka and Deana L. Molinari -- Appendix A: The perceptive, affective, and cognitive critical thinking model -- Appendix B: Rural nurse role competencies.