AGACNP-1 Sessions 1&2: Scope of Practice, Billing &
Coding, Health Promotion Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Role of AGACNP- Consensus Model Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ No uniform model across states.
Each states independently determines APRN legal scope of practice & criteria for certification.
Licensure Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Granting authority to practice
Accreditation Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Formal review & approval by a recognized agency of edu. or certification
program.
Certification Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Formal recognition of knowlege, skills, & experience demonstrated by
achievement of standards identified by the profession.
Education Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Formal preparation of APRNs in graduate degree-granting programs.
Role of AGACNP vs. other NP Roles Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ AGACNP care for "physiologically unstable,
technologically dependent, patients that are highly vulnerable to complications."
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Scope & Standards of AGACNP Practice (AACN Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ -Collect PT data
-Analyze assessment data & determine dx
-ID expected pt outcomes
-Dev. & implement plan of care
-Prescribe interventions
-Eval. pt progress
Quality Indicators/Outcomes Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ -PT & family satisfaction
-Rate of adverse events
-Complication rate
-Adherence to d/c plan
-Mortality rate
-LOS
Synergy Model Core Concept Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Needs & characteristics of PTs & families influence
characteristics or competencies of APRN
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Each indiv. characteristic is further delineated by levels of complexity or intensity
Synergy Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Results when a pts needs & characteristics are matched with the APRNs
competencies
Synergy: PT Characteristics Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ -Resiliency
-Vulnerability
-Stability
-Complexity
-Resource Availability
-Participation in care
-Participation in decision-making
-Predictability ( allows one to expect a certain trajectory of illness)
Patient Characteristics: Resiliency Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Capacity to return to a restorative level of fxn
Patient Characteristics: Vulnerability Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Susceptibility to actual or potential stressors
Patient Characteristics: Stability Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Ability to maintain a steady state of equilibrium
Patient Characteristics: Complexity Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Intricate entanglement of 2 or more systems
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