PATRICIA BENNER directs The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Study of Nursing Education and is professor emerita at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She is a nursing educator and author of From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Nursing Practice and other notable books on nursing practice and education.

MOLLY SUTPHEN is on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco and codirector of The Carnegie Foundation's Study of Nursing Education. She is a historian who has published widely on nursing education and the history of -international health.

VICTORIA LEONARD is a former nurse educator in maternal child nursing and health policy. Currently, she is a family nurse practitioner and child care health consultant at the UCSF California Childcare Health Program.

LISA DAY is a former nurse educator in critical care, acute care nursing, and ethics. -Currently, she is a clinical nurse specialist for neuroscience and critical care at UCSF Medical Center. She authors the ethics column for the American Journal of Critical Care.