AGACNP - Based on Frances Guide Review
Answered.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,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
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
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
Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV?
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event?
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?
Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on Medicaid.
You instruct the patient that Medicaid:
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?
Health literacy
Quality assurance
CPI Answer-
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:
Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process
change?
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to-pass-your-adult-gerontology-acute-care-agacnp-certification-exam-updated-2022.
,Goals set forth in healthy people 2020 by the US department of Health and Human
services include:
Based on the individual's culture, ethnicity, and personal choices, the NP can optimize
the therapeutic partnership with the patient by:
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:
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?
What legislation allowed NPs to be recognized Medicare providers in all geographical
areas with their own provider number?
True/false: restraining an unwilling patient is grounds for malpractice?
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?
The NP program initiated, primarily, because of what issue in healthcare at the time?
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?
Patient calls to complain about bills and states he has Medicare, which should cover all
costs. You explain:
Doc calls from another center asking if you can tell him what kind of orders he should
give for maintenance of patient...
Patient in ER not doing well, primary MD calls:
NP working on ESRD research project. A colleague renal specialist asks for patient info
on your patients:
Who enforces HIPAA?
Who isn't covered by HIPAA?
Insurance company calling to verify some patient appointments?
Benchmarking
Managed care
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, Peer review
Sensitivity vs specificity
There was a question where a patient had a multinodular goiter and wanted to know
why the NP was not going to do periodic US and fine needle biopsy in monitoring for
some kind of cancer or complication. The answer I picked was that these tests were not
very specific to detect the cancer
Reliability
Validity of results in an article
Statistical significance
Privileging
Who determines scope of practice?
Case management
50-60 year old patient ith a new diagnosis of cancer. To appropriately plan for
discharge, what should the NP do?
a. consult CM
b. Consult SW
c. refer to Oncology
d. refer to Hospice
Nondisclosure
Negligence
When serving as a nurse researcher, the NP is guided by which ethical principle to
ensure that research participants are protected from harm or exploitation?
Living will
NP sees a patient for HF and performs an H&P. What % is expected to be paid?
Focus of palliative care asic improvement in QOL of anyone with an illness at any stage
Hospice
Scope of practice: integration of care across the acute illness continuum with:
a. collaboration
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Answered.
Complete answered file @ https://www.stuvia.com/doc/1796150/frances-guide-qbank-
to-pass-your-adult-gerontology-acute-care-agacnp-certification-exam-updated-2022.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Complete answered file @ https://www.stuvia.com/doc/1796150/frances-guide-qbank-
to-pass-your-adult-gerontology-acute-care-agacnp-certification-exam-updated-2022.
,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
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
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
Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV?
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event?
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?
Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on Medicaid.
You instruct the patient that Medicaid:
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?
Health literacy
Quality assurance
CPI Answer-
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:
Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process
change?
Complete answered file @ https://www.stuvia.com/doc/1796150/frances-guide-qbank-
to-pass-your-adult-gerontology-acute-care-agacnp-certification-exam-updated-2022.
,Goals set forth in healthy people 2020 by the US department of Health and Human
services include:
Based on the individual's culture, ethnicity, and personal choices, the NP can optimize
the therapeutic partnership with the patient by:
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:
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?
What legislation allowed NPs to be recognized Medicare providers in all geographical
areas with their own provider number?
True/false: restraining an unwilling patient is grounds for malpractice?
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?
The NP program initiated, primarily, because of what issue in healthcare at the time?
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?
Patient calls to complain about bills and states he has Medicare, which should cover all
costs. You explain:
Doc calls from another center asking if you can tell him what kind of orders he should
give for maintenance of patient...
Patient in ER not doing well, primary MD calls:
NP working on ESRD research project. A colleague renal specialist asks for patient info
on your patients:
Who enforces HIPAA?
Who isn't covered by HIPAA?
Insurance company calling to verify some patient appointments?
Benchmarking
Managed care
Complete answered file @ https://www.stuvia.com/doc/1796150/frances-guide-qbank-
to-pass-your-adult-gerontology-acute-care-agacnp-certification-exam-updated-2022.
, Peer review
Sensitivity vs specificity
There was a question where a patient had a multinodular goiter and wanted to know
why the NP was not going to do periodic US and fine needle biopsy in monitoring for
some kind of cancer or complication. The answer I picked was that these tests were not
very specific to detect the cancer
Reliability
Validity of results in an article
Statistical significance
Privileging
Who determines scope of practice?
Case management
50-60 year old patient ith a new diagnosis of cancer. To appropriately plan for
discharge, what should the NP do?
a. consult CM
b. Consult SW
c. refer to Oncology
d. refer to Hospice
Nondisclosure
Negligence
When serving as a nurse researcher, the NP is guided by which ethical principle to
ensure that research participants are protected from harm or exploitation?
Living will
NP sees a patient for HF and performs an H&P. What % is expected to be paid?
Focus of palliative care asic improvement in QOL of anyone with an illness at any stage
Hospice
Scope of practice: integration of care across the acute illness continuum with:
a. collaboration
Complete answered file @ https://www.stuvia.com/doc/1796150/frances-guide-qbank-
to-pass-your-adult-gerontology-acute-care-agacnp-certification-exam-updated-2022.
