Advanced Practice Lung Cancer Nurses (APLCN) are well-established in several countries but
their role has yet to be established in Switzerland. Developing an innovative nursing role requires a
structured approach to guide successful implementation and to meet the overarching goal of improved
nursing sensitive patient outcomes. The “Participatory, Evidence-based, Patient-focused process, for
guiding the development, implementation, and evaluation of advanced practice nursing” (PEPPA
framework) is one approach that was developed in the context of the Canadian health system. The
purpose of this article is to describe the development of an APLCN model at a Swiss Academic Medical
Center as part of a specialized Thoracic Cancer Center and to evaluate the applicability of PEPPA
framework in this process