ANCC AGACNP - Frances Guide
Review
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 - ---correct answers ---a.
stress importance of 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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---a. libel
Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? - ---
correct answers ---No, not without his permission
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? - ---
correct answers ---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? -
---correct answers ---Medicaid
, Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on
Medicaid. You instruct the patient that Medicaid: - ---correct answers ---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? - ---correct answers ---Veracity
and fidelity
Health literacy - ---correct answers ---Average american: 8th grade level
Quality assurance - ---correct answers ---A process for evaluating the care of
patients using established standards of care to ensure quality
CPI - ---correct answers ---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 include: - ---correct answers ---Guidelines for having
discussions with family members that are geared toward establishing treatment
goals
Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process
change? - ---correct answers ---An increased incidence of postoperative
sternal wound infections
Review
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 - ---correct answers ---a.
stress importance of 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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---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 - ---correct answers ---a. libel
Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? - ---
correct answers ---No, not without his permission
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? - ---
correct answers ---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? -
---correct answers ---Medicaid
, Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on
Medicaid. You instruct the patient that Medicaid: - ---correct answers ---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? - ---correct answers ---Veracity
and fidelity
Health literacy - ---correct answers ---Average american: 8th grade level
Quality assurance - ---correct answers ---A process for evaluating the care of
patients using established standards of care to ensure quality
CPI - ---correct answers ---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 include: - ---correct answers ---Guidelines for having
discussions with family members that are geared toward establishing treatment
goals
Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process
change? - ---correct answers ---An increased incidence of postoperative
sternal wound infections
