2025 Frances Guide Question Bank –
Complete Practice Questions &
Answers to Pass Your Adult-
Gerontology Acute Care (AGACNP)
Certification Exam with Guaranteed
Success
You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How
should you present this issue to the committee?
a. Stress importance of the team (look up evidence about how team affects
outcomes) b. Describe how to improve and expand the team - answer--a. stress
importance of 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 your local congressman
d. review literature and give more in-services - answer--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 - answer--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 - answer--b. cardiology office
What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population?
a. participate in a high state or national level
b. join a non-profit advocacy group
c. consider lobbying the government
d. start at your facility - answer--d. start at your facility
Answers are worded differently. "decrease bias in healthcare" "create in-servises
in healthcare" "obtain funding to increase access"
,Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance
when reviewing the literature?
,a. consider the sample size
b. make sure the confidence interval is tight
c. see if the p-value is less than the alpha-coefficient
d. determine the error rate - answer--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 provder
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 - answer--c. send a certified
letter with a return receipt requested
Which of the following components of an evidenced based research process is the
most important for NP to participate in?
a. specifying methods of data collection
b. formulating the hypothesis
c. carefully reviewing the literature
d. formulating the research problem - answer--d. formulating the research problem
A former pt of an NP is writing blog posts, sending emails, and distributing
false, accusatory statements about the NP's practice. Which of the following
forms of defamation is this?
a. libel
b. slander - answer--a. libel
Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? -
answer-- No, not without his permission
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? -
answer-- 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? -
answer-- Medicaid
Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on
Medicaid. You instruct the patient that Medicaid: - answer--Pays after insurance and
3rd 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 workds.
What ethical principles does this challenge? - answer--Veracity and fidelity
Health literacy - answer--Average american: 8th grade level
, Quality assurance - answer--A process for evaluating the care of patients
using established standards of care to ensure quality
CPI - answer--Measures structure, processes, and outcomes
A root 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: - answer--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? - answer--An increased incidence of postoperative sternal wound infections
Goals set forth in healthy people 2020 by the US department of Health and Human
services include: - answer--elimination of health disparities (and increased QOL/LOL)
Based on the individual's culture, ethnicity, and personal choices, the NP can
optimize the therapeutic partnership with the patient by: - answer--Tailoring his or her
communication style to the patient's preference
A 70 year old patient with a history of DM, HTN, OAs, and a new diagnosis of CAD, is
being discharged. The adult-gerontology acute care NP teaches the patient that the
first point of contact for health care needs is the: - answer--PCP
The NP is asked to provide evidence to the hospital administration about the safety
of NP placing central lines. Which resource provides the strongest level of evidence?
- answer--A systematic review (meta analysis)
What legislation allowed NPs to be recognized Medicare providers in all
geographical areas with their own provider number? - answer--Balanced Budget act
True/false: restraining an unwilling patient is grounds for malpractice? - answer--
False, if they are a danger you can restrain
Patient presents to the clinic for routine f/u and passes out. You revive the patient
and admit overnight. Which of the following would qualify as incident to billing? -
answer-- Temperature and weight recording
The NP program initiated, primarily, because of what issue in healthcare at the time?
- answer--Pediatric physician shortage
Elderly patient takes a turn for the worse. The husband is crying when you enter the
room and begins telling you what end-of-life care he prefers. What do you do? -
answer--Ask him to speak candidly with you
Complete Practice Questions &
Answers to Pass Your Adult-
Gerontology Acute Care (AGACNP)
Certification Exam with Guaranteed
Success
You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How
should you present this issue to the committee?
a. Stress importance of the team (look up evidence about how team affects
outcomes) b. Describe how to improve and expand the team - answer--a. stress
importance of 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 your local congressman
d. review literature and give more in-services - answer--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 - answer--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 - answer--b. cardiology office
What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population?
a. participate in a high state or national level
b. join a non-profit advocacy group
c. consider lobbying the government
d. start at your facility - answer--d. start at your facility
Answers are worded differently. "decrease bias in healthcare" "create in-servises
in healthcare" "obtain funding to increase access"
,Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance
when reviewing the literature?
,a. consider the sample size
b. make sure the confidence interval is tight
c. see if the p-value is less than the alpha-coefficient
d. determine the error rate - answer--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 provder
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 - answer--c. send a certified
letter with a return receipt requested
Which of the following components of an evidenced based research process is the
most important for NP to participate in?
a. specifying methods of data collection
b. formulating the hypothesis
c. carefully reviewing the literature
d. formulating the research problem - answer--d. formulating the research problem
A former pt of an NP is writing blog posts, sending emails, and distributing
false, accusatory statements about the NP's practice. Which of the following
forms of defamation is this?
a. libel
b. slander - answer--a. libel
Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? -
answer-- No, not without his permission
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? -
answer-- 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? -
answer-- Medicaid
Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on
Medicaid. You instruct the patient that Medicaid: - answer--Pays after insurance and
3rd 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 workds.
What ethical principles does this challenge? - answer--Veracity and fidelity
Health literacy - answer--Average american: 8th grade level
, Quality assurance - answer--A process for evaluating the care of patients
using established standards of care to ensure quality
CPI - answer--Measures structure, processes, and outcomes
A root 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: - answer--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? - answer--An increased incidence of postoperative sternal wound infections
Goals set forth in healthy people 2020 by the US department of Health and Human
services include: - answer--elimination of health disparities (and increased QOL/LOL)
Based on the individual's culture, ethnicity, and personal choices, the NP can
optimize the therapeutic partnership with the patient by: - answer--Tailoring his or her
communication style to the patient's preference
A 70 year old patient with a history of DM, HTN, OAs, and a new diagnosis of CAD, is
being discharged. The adult-gerontology acute care NP teaches the patient that the
first point of contact for health care needs is the: - answer--PCP
The NP is asked to provide evidence to the hospital administration about the safety
of NP placing central lines. Which resource provides the strongest level of evidence?
- answer--A systematic review (meta analysis)
What legislation allowed NPs to be recognized Medicare providers in all
geographical areas with their own provider number? - answer--Balanced Budget act
True/false: restraining an unwilling patient is grounds for malpractice? - answer--
False, if they are a danger you can restrain
Patient presents to the clinic for routine f/u and passes out. You revive the patient
and admit overnight. Which of the following would qualify as incident to billing? -
answer-- Temperature and weight recording
The NP program initiated, primarily, because of what issue in healthcare at the time?
- answer--Pediatric physician shortage
Elderly patient takes a turn for the worse. The husband is crying when you enter the
room and begins telling you what end-of-life care he prefers. What do you do? -
answer--Ask him to speak candidly with you
