Amazon.com description: Product Description: The book addresses the evolution of the Advance Practice Nurse (APN) role over time, the environment in which APNs practice, APN core competencies, evolving issues, challenges, and basic organizational and business skills that will allow the APN to survive and thrive. The author and her stellar list of contributors tackle the topics that all nursing graduate students need to be familiar with to function as an APN, such as: evidence-based practice, ethical decision-making, basic teaching skills, starking a practice and practice management, court cases involving the APN, and much more.