AGACNP FRANCES GUIDE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2026
You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How
should you present this issue to the committee?
-Stress importance of the team
-Describe how to improve and expand the team.
Stress importance of the team
(answer is worded as looking up evidence about how the team affects outcomes,
like a meta-analysis)
-highest level of research: meta-analysis (multiple studies)
What is the best way for the AGACNP to get involved in policy making?
-Attend legislative days at the state capitol
-Join a hospital committee
-Write to your local congressman
-Review literature and give more in-services
Join a hospital committee
-start at local level
What is the best way for the AGACNP to demonstrate and advocate for full scope
of practice?
-Join a hospital committee
-Petition the government
-Bill for independent services
-Start your own practice
,Bill for independent services
-"demonstrate and advocate"; proving you are your own provider
Which of the following is considered a high acuity role for the AGACNP?
-Primary care clinic
-Cardiology office
-Community health department
-Minute Clinic
Cardiology Office
What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population in your area?
-Participate at a high state or national level
-Join a non-profit advocacy group
-Consider lobbying the government
-Start at your facility
Start at your facility
(answers are worded differently. One of them is "decrease bias in healthcare" and
another is something like "create inservices in healthcare" and another is "obtain
funding to increase access.")
-local level
Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance when
reviewing the literature?
-Consider the sample size
-Make sure the confidence interval is tight
-See if the p-value is less than the α-coefficient
-Determine the error rate
,(Answers are worded differently. "Ensure confounding variables were eliminated"
& "P value is less than null hypothesis" were two of them.
Consider the sample size
-higher sample size; more likely to get an appropriate p-value (low p-value)
When closing a practice, the NP is required to do all of the following except:
-Give the pt adequate time to find another provider (2 months)
-Keep all of the patient's records for a minimum of five years
-Send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
-Provide names of other providers for future care
Send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
-this is for discharging/firing a patient from your practice
Which of the following components of an evidenced based research process is the
most important for NP to participate in?
-Specifying methods of data collection
-Formulating the hypothesis
-Carefully reviewing the literature
-Formulating the research problem
Formulating the research problem
-highest level of research; develop own research problem as a Master's degree
1. identify problem
2. literature review
3. specify hypothesis
4. data collection
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?
-libel
-slander
, Libel
-Libel = literature (written)
-Slander = spoken (verbal)
Can you tell the pt's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV?
No, not without his permission.
-HIPPA violation
-reportable disease: chlamydia, gonorrhea, Syphilis, TB, HIV - report to health
department only
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event?
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?
Medicaid
-Medicaid to help poor
-Medicare to help retired
-"spending down" - become poor to qualify
Your pt is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on Medicaid.
You instruct the patient that Medicaid:
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 works.
What ethical principles does this challenge?
Veracity and Fidelity
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2026
You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How
should you present this issue to the committee?
-Stress importance of the team
-Describe how to improve and expand the team.
Stress importance of the team
(answer is worded as looking up evidence about how the team affects outcomes,
like a meta-analysis)
-highest level of research: meta-analysis (multiple studies)
What is the best way for the AGACNP to get involved in policy making?
-Attend legislative days at the state capitol
-Join a hospital committee
-Write to your local congressman
-Review literature and give more in-services
Join a hospital committee
-start at local level
What is the best way for the AGACNP to demonstrate and advocate for full scope
of practice?
-Join a hospital committee
-Petition the government
-Bill for independent services
-Start your own practice
,Bill for independent services
-"demonstrate and advocate"; proving you are your own provider
Which of the following is considered a high acuity role for the AGACNP?
-Primary care clinic
-Cardiology office
-Community health department
-Minute Clinic
Cardiology Office
What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population in your area?
-Participate at a high state or national level
-Join a non-profit advocacy group
-Consider lobbying the government
-Start at your facility
Start at your facility
(answers are worded differently. One of them is "decrease bias in healthcare" and
another is something like "create inservices in healthcare" and another is "obtain
funding to increase access.")
-local level
Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance when
reviewing the literature?
-Consider the sample size
-Make sure the confidence interval is tight
-See if the p-value is less than the α-coefficient
-Determine the error rate
,(Answers are worded differently. "Ensure confounding variables were eliminated"
& "P value is less than null hypothesis" were two of them.
Consider the sample size
-higher sample size; more likely to get an appropriate p-value (low p-value)
When closing a practice, the NP is required to do all of the following except:
-Give the pt adequate time to find another provider (2 months)
-Keep all of the patient's records for a minimum of five years
-Send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
-Provide names of other providers for future care
Send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
-this is for discharging/firing a patient from your practice
Which of the following components of an evidenced based research process is the
most important for NP to participate in?
-Specifying methods of data collection
-Formulating the hypothesis
-Carefully reviewing the literature
-Formulating the research problem
Formulating the research problem
-highest level of research; develop own research problem as a Master's degree
1. identify problem
2. literature review
3. specify hypothesis
4. data collection
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?
-libel
-slander
, Libel
-Libel = literature (written)
-Slander = spoken (verbal)
Can you tell the pt's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV?
No, not without his permission.
-HIPPA violation
-reportable disease: chlamydia, gonorrhea, Syphilis, TB, HIV - report to health
department only
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event?
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?
Medicaid
-Medicaid to help poor
-Medicare to help retired
-"spending down" - become poor to qualify
Your pt is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on Medicaid.
You instruct the patient that Medicaid:
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 works.
What ethical principles does this challenge?
Veracity and Fidelity
