First Indian textbook that is specific to npcc course fully compliant with the advanced nursing Practice (and) syllabus prescribed by Indian Nursing Council (inc) provides an overview of the entire syllabus for theoretical basis for advanced practice nursing for nurse practitioners in critical care in India contains a separate elaborately presented section addressing the competencies of nurse practitioner in critical care content richly supplemented with relevant figures and tables chapters are presented in a short and summaries manner for the easy understanding of the students includes examples of global frameworks for guiding advanced nursing Practice content relevant for postgraduate and undergraduate students also.