AONN CERTIFICATION EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
What are Cancer Costs by 2020 - Answers -$173 Billion
When was Affordable Care Act Passed - Answers -2010
What is the Affordable Care Act - Answers -By 1/1/14 citizens must have health ins or
pay penalty
What is NCCN Distress Thermometer - Answers -Tool to identify barriers and issues of
distress
What is Mullan's Seasons of Survival Model - Answers -3 stages of survival - Acute,
Extended, Permanent
What is Bidimensional Orientation of NN Role - Answers -Patient-centered and
healthcare system-centered
What is the Freeman Model - Answers -Navigation model using community members to
help underserved and poor gain access to breast cancer screenings
What is Major Purpose of Navigation - Answers -Provide personal assistance in
eliminating barriers to care
What is Belmont Report and Informed Consent - Answers -Informed Consent is an
example of the ethical principle Autonomy
When did ONS Implemented NN Role - Answers -2008
Lillie's Book When - Answers -2011
When was Patient Navigation Research Program Formed - Answers -2002
What is CoC Standard 3.1 - Answers -ID and address a new barrier each year
What is Palliative Care - Answers -Symptom Management, not hospice
What is #1 of wishes in dying patients? - Answers -Be Kept Clean (99% of patients)
What to Expect --> Physical Condition - Answers -96% of patients say this is important
What % of patients wish to die at home - Answers -50-90%
, How many patients die at home - Answers -10-35%
How many patients die in hospitals - Answers -50-60%
What is average length of time pt receives hospice - Answers -5 days
What is % ICU deaths of metastatic patients - Answers -21%
What do patients think when they hear: "Hopeful your tumor will respond to this
treatment" - Answers -30-81% patients think "cure"
True/False: Being honest doesn't take away hope - Answers -True
What is #1 fear of entering hospice - Answers -Fear of abandonment by their doctor
What are 3 Phases of Hope? - Answers -1) miracle, 2) long life w/quality of life, 3)
accepting shortened life but still hope for quality of life
What is the mean cost of cancer care in last 6 months of life? - Answers -$74,000 (only
4% is hospice)
True/False: Advanced Directives are just CPR - Answers -False
True/False: Poor communication is why pts don't get care they desire - Answers -True
What is Role of Navigation - Answers -Improve patient's timely access to cancer-
related care throughout the cancer continuum
When Was Term "Patient Navigation" First Coined - Answers -1990's by Harold
Freeman in Harlem, NY
What was increase in 5-year survival rate after Freeman's program - Answers -
Increased from 39% to 70% in breast cancer, 94% of whom were black
What was decrease in late stage diagnosis after Freeman's program - Answers -
Decreased from 50% to 20% for his black patients
What is World Health Org definition of health - Answers -"state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
What Does Health People 2020 say health is affected by? - Answers -Social
determinants: economic stability, education, neighborhood, social and community,
health and healthcare
Why was first patient navigation program developed in Harlem? - Answers -To reduce
the stage of disease and mortality of black patients
VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
What are Cancer Costs by 2020 - Answers -$173 Billion
When was Affordable Care Act Passed - Answers -2010
What is the Affordable Care Act - Answers -By 1/1/14 citizens must have health ins or
pay penalty
What is NCCN Distress Thermometer - Answers -Tool to identify barriers and issues of
distress
What is Mullan's Seasons of Survival Model - Answers -3 stages of survival - Acute,
Extended, Permanent
What is Bidimensional Orientation of NN Role - Answers -Patient-centered and
healthcare system-centered
What is the Freeman Model - Answers -Navigation model using community members to
help underserved and poor gain access to breast cancer screenings
What is Major Purpose of Navigation - Answers -Provide personal assistance in
eliminating barriers to care
What is Belmont Report and Informed Consent - Answers -Informed Consent is an
example of the ethical principle Autonomy
When did ONS Implemented NN Role - Answers -2008
Lillie's Book When - Answers -2011
When was Patient Navigation Research Program Formed - Answers -2002
What is CoC Standard 3.1 - Answers -ID and address a new barrier each year
What is Palliative Care - Answers -Symptom Management, not hospice
What is #1 of wishes in dying patients? - Answers -Be Kept Clean (99% of patients)
What to Expect --> Physical Condition - Answers -96% of patients say this is important
What % of patients wish to die at home - Answers -50-90%
, How many patients die at home - Answers -10-35%
How many patients die in hospitals - Answers -50-60%
What is average length of time pt receives hospice - Answers -5 days
What is % ICU deaths of metastatic patients - Answers -21%
What do patients think when they hear: "Hopeful your tumor will respond to this
treatment" - Answers -30-81% patients think "cure"
True/False: Being honest doesn't take away hope - Answers -True
What is #1 fear of entering hospice - Answers -Fear of abandonment by their doctor
What are 3 Phases of Hope? - Answers -1) miracle, 2) long life w/quality of life, 3)
accepting shortened life but still hope for quality of life
What is the mean cost of cancer care in last 6 months of life? - Answers -$74,000 (only
4% is hospice)
True/False: Advanced Directives are just CPR - Answers -False
True/False: Poor communication is why pts don't get care they desire - Answers -True
What is Role of Navigation - Answers -Improve patient's timely access to cancer-
related care throughout the cancer continuum
When Was Term "Patient Navigation" First Coined - Answers -1990's by Harold
Freeman in Harlem, NY
What was increase in 5-year survival rate after Freeman's program - Answers -
Increased from 39% to 70% in breast cancer, 94% of whom were black
What was decrease in late stage diagnosis after Freeman's program - Answers -
Decreased from 50% to 20% for his black patients
What is World Health Org definition of health - Answers -"state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
What Does Health People 2020 say health is affected by? - Answers -Social
determinants: economic stability, education, neighborhood, social and community,
health and healthcare
Why was first patient navigation program developed in Harlem? - Answers -To reduce
the stage of disease and mortality of black patients
