• Research shows that patient outcomes and quality of care improves when advanced practice nurses (APNs) collaborate with other health care professionals. Collaboration helps to reduce health care costs, provide the best care, and to develop new research models (Brootenet al., 2012). • For health care providers and APNs to have an effective collaboration relationship they must acquire an interprofeesional mindset. One has to be willing to learn to work together with others in a professional health care setting. Effective socialization is the key for APNs and health care professional to successfully collaborate with one another. If these workers possess communication skills he or she will be able to collaborate and provide patient-centered,
