AGACNP Review QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
2026
You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How should you present
this issue to the committee?
A. Stress the importance of a team
B. Describe how to improve and expand the team - Correct Answers A. Stress the importance of
a team
What is the best way for the AGACNP to get involved in policy making?
A. Attend legislative days at the state capitol
B. Join a hospital committee
C. Write to your local congressman
D. Review literature and give more in-services - Correct Answers B. Join a hospital committee
What is the best way for the AGACNP to demonstrate and advocate for full scope of practice?
A. Join a hospital committee
B. Petition the government
C. Bill for independent services
,D. Start your own practice - Correct Answers C. Bill for independent services
Which of the following is considered a high acuity role for the AGACNP?
A. Primary care clinic
B. Cardiology office
C. Community health department
D. Minute Clinic - Correct Answers B. Cardiology office
What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population in your area?
A. Participate at a high state or national level
B. Join a nonprofit advocacy group
C. Consider lobbying the government
D. Start at your facility - Correct Answers D. Start at your facility
Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance when reviewing the
literature?
A. Consider the sample size
B. Make sure the confident and interval is tight
C. See if the p-value is less than the a-coefficient
D. Determine the error rate - Correct Answers A. Consider the sample size
When closing a practice, the NP is required to do all of the following except:
,A. Give the patient adequate time to find another provider
B. Keep all of the patient's records for a minimum of five years
C. Send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
D. Provide names of other providers for future care - Correct Answers C. Send a certified letter
with a return receipt requested
Which of the following components of an evidence based research process is the most
important for the NP to participate in?
A. Specifying methods of data collection
B. Formulating the hypothesis
C. Carefully reviewing the literature
D. Formulating the research problem - Correct Answers D. Formulating the research problem
A former patient of an NP is writing blog post, sending emails, distributing false, accusatory
statements about the NP's practice. Which of the following forms of defamation is this?
A. Libel
B. Slander - Correct Answers A. Libel- written
(slander- oral)
Tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? - Correct Answers No, not
without his permission
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? - Correct Answers
Pre-enroll in disaster volunteer program
, An 80 year old male patient with dementia requires long-term care placement. To which
funding agency does the patient apply after "spending down" to qualify? - Correct Answers
Medicaid
Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks for advice on Medicaid. You instruct
the patient that Medicaid: - Correct Answers Pays after insurance and third-party payers have
paid
You are giving a dinner presentation to a group. The pharmaceutical rep calls you the night
before and wants you to say that their drug is the only one that works. What ethical principles
does this challenge? - Correct Answers Veracity and Fidelity
Health literacy education level - Correct Answers 8th grade
What is quality assurance? - Correct Answers process for evaluating the care of patients using
established stands of care to ensure quality
CPI measures what three measures to improve nursing? - Correct Answers Structure, processes,
and outcomes
But cause analysis of a crisis situation in the ICU identified a lack of clinician family
communication as the basis for the resulting adverse outcome. As part of the performance
improvement plan, the NP is asked to develop evidence-based policies to establish clinician
family communication standards in the unit. These policies should include: - Correct Answers
Guidelines for having discussions with family members that are geared toward establishing
treatment goals
Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process change? -
Correct Answers An increased incidence of postoperative sternal wound infections
2026
You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How should you present
this issue to the committee?
A. Stress the importance of a team
B. Describe how to improve and expand the team - Correct Answers A. Stress the importance of
a team
What is the best way for the AGACNP to get involved in policy making?
A. Attend legislative days at the state capitol
B. Join a hospital committee
C. Write to your local congressman
D. Review literature and give more in-services - Correct Answers B. Join a hospital committee
What is the best way for the AGACNP to demonstrate and advocate for full scope of practice?
A. Join a hospital committee
B. Petition the government
C. Bill for independent services
,D. Start your own practice - Correct Answers C. Bill for independent services
Which of the following is considered a high acuity role for the AGACNP?
A. Primary care clinic
B. Cardiology office
C. Community health department
D. Minute Clinic - Correct Answers B. Cardiology office
What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population in your area?
A. Participate at a high state or national level
B. Join a nonprofit advocacy group
C. Consider lobbying the government
D. Start at your facility - Correct Answers D. Start at your facility
Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance when reviewing the
literature?
A. Consider the sample size
B. Make sure the confident and interval is tight
C. See if the p-value is less than the a-coefficient
D. Determine the error rate - Correct Answers A. Consider the sample size
When closing a practice, the NP is required to do all of the following except:
,A. Give the patient adequate time to find another provider
B. Keep all of the patient's records for a minimum of five years
C. Send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
D. Provide names of other providers for future care - Correct Answers C. Send a certified letter
with a return receipt requested
Which of the following components of an evidence based research process is the most
important for the NP to participate in?
A. Specifying methods of data collection
B. Formulating the hypothesis
C. Carefully reviewing the literature
D. Formulating the research problem - Correct Answers D. Formulating the research problem
A former patient of an NP is writing blog post, sending emails, distributing false, accusatory
statements about the NP's practice. Which of the following forms of defamation is this?
A. Libel
B. Slander - Correct Answers A. Libel- written
(slander- oral)
Tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? - Correct Answers No, not
without his permission
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? - Correct Answers
Pre-enroll in disaster volunteer program
, An 80 year old male patient with dementia requires long-term care placement. To which
funding agency does the patient apply after "spending down" to qualify? - Correct Answers
Medicaid
Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks for advice on Medicaid. You instruct
the patient that Medicaid: - Correct Answers Pays after insurance and third-party payers have
paid
You are giving a dinner presentation to a group. The pharmaceutical rep calls you the night
before and wants you to say that their drug is the only one that works. What ethical principles
does this challenge? - Correct Answers Veracity and Fidelity
Health literacy education level - Correct Answers 8th grade
What is quality assurance? - Correct Answers process for evaluating the care of patients using
established stands of care to ensure quality
CPI measures what three measures to improve nursing? - Correct Answers Structure, processes,
and outcomes
But cause analysis of a crisis situation in the ICU identified a lack of clinician family
communication as the basis for the resulting adverse outcome. As part of the performance
improvement plan, the NP is asked to develop evidence-based policies to establish clinician
family communication standards in the unit. These policies should include: - Correct Answers
Guidelines for having discussions with family members that are geared toward establishing
treatment goals
Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process change? -
Correct Answers An increased incidence of postoperative sternal wound infections
