Haag-Heitman and George, both nurses, outline principles for peer review in nursing and provide guidance for the development and implementation of sustainable peer review processes, which will help nurses achieve high levels of quality and safety outcomes. They aim to bring back the past focus on quality patient outcomes with the contemporary addition of patient safety, as well as an expansion and extension of the focus on peer review to professional role actualization and nursing practice advancements. They describe the history of peer review developments by the American Nurses Association; the professional code of ethics that accompany these principles; a conceptual framework; an implementation framework based on the principles of ownership, equity, partnership, and accountability; formal types of peer review structures and practices for nurses at all levels and settings; an informal mechanism for daily improvement in quality and safety; and educational programming. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)