Faculty practice has been a value in both nursing education and nursing service. Recent changes in education provide the opportunity for practice to be rewarded in the university setting. Changes in health care delivery demand expert practitioners and leadership in advanced practice nursing. The history of education-practice integration is reviewed. A new role of the practitioner educator (reverse joint appointee) is presented. Benefits of the position to both education and practice are discussed.

Innovation in healthcare is essential to solve the "wicked problems" currently facing healthcare. This article focuses on nature of innovation and how it operates, how innovators think and view problems, how the theory and practice of innovation can be taught in novel ways, and how organizational cultures foster or suppress innovation. Examples of teaching strategies and nurse-driven innovation illustrate the theory and practice of innovation.

The growing use of holistic interventions in the form of complementary and alternative therapies has renewed interest in the placebo effect. A brief history of thought on the placebo effect as a nonspecific, bona fide effect and the result of meaning making were explored. Case situations illustrate the interplay among holistic interventions, the placebo effect, and healing.

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