Family Nurse Practitioner ANCC
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
The family nurse practitioner asks a patient to perform rapid,
alternating movements of the hands to evaluate:
a. cerebellar functioning
b. cognitive functioning
c. reflex arc functioning
d. stereognostic functioning - Correct Answers ✅a.
cerebellar functioning
After determining that a two-and-half-year-old patient has a
lead level of 16 mcg/dL, the family nurse practitioner:
a. advises the parent to avoid giving the patient bottles of
whole milk.
b. consults with a physical therapist for muscle strengthening
c. orders an increase of iron supplements to 6 mg/kg per day
divided in two doses
d. repeats a blood test within one week to one month. -
Correct Answers ✅d. repeats a blood test within one week
to one month.
A 38-year-old patient who is Vietnamese tells the family nurse
practitioner that their parent died in their 40s from liver
cancer. The nurse practitioner assesses that the patient is at
risk for:
a. hepatitis B
b. malaria
,Family Nurse Practitioner ANCC
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
c. ularemia
d. tyrosinemia. - Correct Answers ✅a. hepatitis B
A 40-year-old patient has had a generalized, nonpruritic skin
eruption with intermittent exacerbations over the past 10
years. Currently, a well-circumscribed erythematous plaque
appears over the patient's left gluteal fold area. The lesion is
covered with scales and has some fissuring. The family nurse
practitioner makes a diagnosis of:
a. atopic dermatitis
b. ichthyosis
c. psoriasis
d. tinea corporis. - Correct Answers ✅c. psoriasis
A difficult aspect of determining occupational exposure to a
disease is the:
a. confidentiality of the information within company records
b. inaccuracy of occupational disease reporting
c. long latency period between exposure and disease
development
d. reliance on workers' memories. - Correct Answers ✅c.
long latency period between exposure and disease
development
, Family Nurse Practitioner ANCC
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
A patient who had a total gastrectomy one year ago reports a
sore mouth, indigestion, and tingling in the lower extremities.
Which test does the family nurse practitioner order?
a .Blood urea nitrogen level
b. Complete blood count
c. Liver function study
d. Thyroid function study. - Correct Answers ✅b. Complete
blood count
A 42-year-old patient with epistaxis, dilated pupils,
tachycardia, and mild euphoria shows symptoms associated
with the use of:
a. alprazolam (Xanax)
b. cocaine
c. morphine sulfate (MS Contin)
d. oxycodone hydrochloride (Oxycontin) - Correct Answers
✅b. cocaine
During cardiac auscultation, a soft first heart sound with a
holosystolic apical murmur that radiates to the left axilla
suggests:
a. aortic stenosis
b. mitral regurgitation
c. mitral stenosis
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
The family nurse practitioner asks a patient to perform rapid,
alternating movements of the hands to evaluate:
a. cerebellar functioning
b. cognitive functioning
c. reflex arc functioning
d. stereognostic functioning - Correct Answers ✅a.
cerebellar functioning
After determining that a two-and-half-year-old patient has a
lead level of 16 mcg/dL, the family nurse practitioner:
a. advises the parent to avoid giving the patient bottles of
whole milk.
b. consults with a physical therapist for muscle strengthening
c. orders an increase of iron supplements to 6 mg/kg per day
divided in two doses
d. repeats a blood test within one week to one month. -
Correct Answers ✅d. repeats a blood test within one week
to one month.
A 38-year-old patient who is Vietnamese tells the family nurse
practitioner that their parent died in their 40s from liver
cancer. The nurse practitioner assesses that the patient is at
risk for:
a. hepatitis B
b. malaria
,Family Nurse Practitioner ANCC
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
c. ularemia
d. tyrosinemia. - Correct Answers ✅a. hepatitis B
A 40-year-old patient has had a generalized, nonpruritic skin
eruption with intermittent exacerbations over the past 10
years. Currently, a well-circumscribed erythematous plaque
appears over the patient's left gluteal fold area. The lesion is
covered with scales and has some fissuring. The family nurse
practitioner makes a diagnosis of:
a. atopic dermatitis
b. ichthyosis
c. psoriasis
d. tinea corporis. - Correct Answers ✅c. psoriasis
A difficult aspect of determining occupational exposure to a
disease is the:
a. confidentiality of the information within company records
b. inaccuracy of occupational disease reporting
c. long latency period between exposure and disease
development
d. reliance on workers' memories. - Correct Answers ✅c.
long latency period between exposure and disease
development
, Family Nurse Practitioner ANCC
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
A patient who had a total gastrectomy one year ago reports a
sore mouth, indigestion, and tingling in the lower extremities.
Which test does the family nurse practitioner order?
a .Blood urea nitrogen level
b. Complete blood count
c. Liver function study
d. Thyroid function study. - Correct Answers ✅b. Complete
blood count
A 42-year-old patient with epistaxis, dilated pupils,
tachycardia, and mild euphoria shows symptoms associated
with the use of:
a. alprazolam (Xanax)
b. cocaine
c. morphine sulfate (MS Contin)
d. oxycodone hydrochloride (Oxycontin) - Correct Answers
✅b. cocaine
During cardiac auscultation, a soft first heart sound with a
holosystolic apical murmur that radiates to the left axilla
suggests:
a. aortic stenosis
b. mitral regurgitation
c. mitral stenosis
