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The article discusses a masterclass held by American Heart Association president Martha Hill at Flinders University School of Nursing in South Australia in 2013 to encourage dialogue about nurse-led cardiovascular health service. Topics covered include the importance of leadership, mentoring and collaboration, the development of skills in areas such as system and culture change and leadership development, and meeting patient and health system demands through advocacy and system efficiency.

The article discusses the service-practice gap in the field of nursing in Australia. Topics discussed include development of expert nursing roles, treatment of disease like heart failure, cardiac rehabilitation, and chest pain by cardiac specialists, and the project initiated by the Workforce and Training Workgroup of the Cardiac Clinical Network to understand the role of cardiac nurse specialist in South Australia.