Develop a base for personal ethics in practice.

Evaluate ethical issues affecting advanced practice nurses while utilizing appropriate ethical models, ethical principles and theories, and incorporation of moral norms.

Evaluate ethical decision making from a personal and organizational perspective and explain how these two perspectives may create conflicts of interest.

Explain the history of advanced practice nursing and the evolution of advanced practice roles.

Utilize scientific foundations and theoretical frameworks to influence health and healthcare. 

Employ collaboration between advanced practice nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Demonstrate an understanding of how the advanced practice nurse can influence healthcare systems and patient outcomes.

Critique the philosophical views underlying current theories of nursing science and practice.