According to the literature, leadership provides the foundation for each team. An effective APN leader must have the basics of integrity, flexibility, loyalty, confidence, accountability, and self-discipline [4] . These basics start with the leader and extend to the individual team members, and then to the team itself. Leadership develops a sense of working together in a framework of mutual trust for the common good of the team [4] . APN leadership involves the ability to coordinate the activities of team members by ensuring team actions are understood, changes in information are shared, and team members have the necessary resources to deliver quality patient care [11] . An APN as a leader can use any one of many models of leadership to develop a personal leadership style.