ANCC AGACNP EXAM SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◉ 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
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◉ 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
