The Acute-Care Nurse PractitionerThe Acute Care Nurse Practitioner is based on in depth interviews with twenty six nurse practitioners working in acute care settings within tertiary care institutions all across Canada. Employing a hermeneutic approach, Rashotte explores the perspectives from which NPs view their reality as they undergo a transformational journey of becominga journey that is directed both outward, into the world, and inward, into the self. We learn how, in their