QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Your collaborating physician has asked you to present a credible source of evidence at the next
staff meeting. Which statement is true of clinical practice guidelines? - correct answer
✔✔clinical practice guidelines are evidence based when conducted systematically and
recommendations formed using the evidence
which represents a primary source of evidence? - correct answer ✔✔individual study
What sources are interpretations and analyses based on primary sources? - correct answer
✔✔secondary sources
What are examples of secondary sources? - correct answer ✔✔meta-synthesis, meta-analysis,
systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines
What source of evidence best supports practice change? - correct answer ✔✔peer review
systematic reviews
Which statement best describes the AGACNP contribution to evidence based nursing? - correct
answer ✔✔APPs can identify gaps in care, help in developing evidence based protocols, and
follow evidence based protocols
Which of the following are considerations by the AGACNP when conducting a culturally
competent pt assessment? - correct answer ✔✔-pt cultural, ethnic, and racial identity
-factors influencing decision making
, -pt preferred language
You are seeing a 72 year old woman with pneumonia. She is generally active and still plays golf
despite history of HTN and HF. What is the priority for this pt? - correct answer ✔✔fall
assessment
When evaluating illness symptoms in older patients, the disease often present in a manner
atypical from younger adults because of? - correct answer ✔✔normal age related decline
which are true about geriatric syndromes? - correct answer ✔✔-often have multiple causes
-common in older adults
-predispose to worse outcomes
what age group had the highest rate of growth between 1980-2017? - correct answer ✔✔100+
The AGACNP is working in a busy Emergency Department and is caring for a pt with deep
wound. NP learns that last Tetanus was 7 years ago. What would be the appropriate next step? -
correct answer ✔✔order tetanus since its been over 5 years since last booster
In the older adult, prevention strategies should have focus on everything except? - correct
answer ✔✔mortality
The NP is caring for a pt who is on the transplant list for solid organ. The NP knows that
immunizations should be - correct answer ✔✔administered as scheduled while awaiting tx to
optimize antibody response
which is not a live attenuated virus vaccine? - correct answer ✔✔pneumococcal
the primary objective of screening is to - correct answer ✔✔detect a disease or condition