ANCC AGPCNP Non-Clinical Terms questions with verified answers 2026-2027
1. Level of Evidence Hierarchy:: 1. Meta-analysis
2. Systemic review
3. Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
4. Experiment
5. Cohort Study
6. Case Reports/Series
7. Expert Opinions/Editorials
2. Types of Research: • Meta-analysis
• Systemic review
• Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
• Experiment (Classic Research)
• Cross-Section
• Longitudinal Design
• Case Study (Report/ series)
• Field study or Naturalistic study
• Survey study
• Cohort research
3. Statute of Limitations:: • The time limit when a lawsuit can be filed or action
against a nursing licensee for alleged violation can occur. Most states are 2-3 years.
• A period of limitation for the bringing of certain kinds of legal action.
4. Standards of Practice: • Authoritative statements of the duties that all registered
nurses, regardless of role, population, or specialty are expected to perform
• It is developed by professional societies (ANA) and specialty organizations (AANP)
5. Emancipated Minor: • Can sign own legal documents
• Legally married or divorce
• Active duty in the armed forces
• These are people under the age of 18 y/o but do not require an adult for consent.
• Legal court document
6. HITECH: • Heath Information Technology or Economic and Clinical Health Act
• Promotes adoption and meaningful use of health information technology
• ACT approved in 2009 for the use of electronic health information.
• Protection of PHI enacted in 2009. PHI must be encrypted prior to sending.
• Patients must be informed if their PHI has been disclosed inappropriately even if
the disclosure was accidental.
• Providers will be offered financial incentives for demonstrating meaningful use of
EHR until 2015 then penalties.
• HITECH- signed by President Obama to transition to electronic health records.
No more paper charting. The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic
and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was signed into law with the explicit intention of
,ANCC AGPCNP Non-Clinical Terms questions with verified answers 2026-2027
accelerating the adoption and promoting the "meaningful use (MU)" of electronic
health records (EHRs) by US physicians.
7. Patient in EOL (end of life) stage ask of hospice:: • The patient is already
end stage so beneficence is not correct unless you are educating about smoking
cessation or vaccination. This is to promote good. Utilitarianism is the greater good
for a population of patients. Justice is to be fair. Which leaves us to autonomy. This
is allowing the patient to make his own choice after giving him all the information to
make a good informed decision.
• AFTT (adult failure to thrive). This is a secondary diagnosis for hospice eligibility.
So when you consult hospice for weight loss and not eating with no other major
diagnoses, this is not a good referral. Hospice is no longer able to use this as a
primary diagnosis.
8. Prescriptive Authority: • The majority of states require NPs to have a collabora-
tive agreement with a physician in order to prescribe.
• All states now allow NPs to prescribe certain controlled drugs, but with limitations
9. DEA: • Drug Enforcement Administration
• NP must obtain prescriptive authority before getting a DEA number to prescribed
controlled substances.
• Allows advanced practice nurses to obtain registration numbers for prescribing
controlled medication
• Though DEA is federal, prescriptive authority is managed by the state board
10. Certification: • Generally a "voluntary" process and is done through a non-
governmental entity such as professional nursing association or specialty organi-
zation.
• Many states mandate certification as a condition to obtain licensure
11. Licensure: • Legal requirement to practice as an NP
• Obtained through a governmental entity, the SBON
• Must meet minimal educational and clinical requirements in order to become
licensed
12. Incidence: • Conveys information about the risk of contracting a disease
• Measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's probability of being
diagnosed with a disease during a given period of time.
• Rate of new cases of the disease
13. Prevalence: • How widespread the disease is
• Measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's likelihood of having a
disease, number of alive cases with the disease
14. What are the 4 ethical principles? (and define): • Beneficence (promoting
well-being for pt. and society)
• Nonmaleficence - "above all, do no harm"
,ANCC AGPCNP Non-Clinical Terms questions with verified answers 2026-2027
• Autonomy (person acts intentionally after being given informed consent)
• Justice (equitable distribution of social benefits)
15. Beneficence: • To do good. The obligation to help the patient; to remove harm,
prevent harm, and promote good
• Acting in the patient's best interest
• Compassionate patient care
• The core principle in patient advocacy.
• Encourage a patient to stop drinking and enroll in AA program.
• Education on a new prescription about how to take the medication, health promo-
tion, education, smoking cessation
16. Nonmaleficence: • Obligation to do no harm; protecting a patient from harm
• Your patient has asthma. She brown bags her medication on this visit and you
notice a beta-blocker. You educate her that she is not a good candidate for these
drugs
• Example: Discussing risks vs. benefits of a treatment; working within SOP (stan-
dard operating procedures).
17. Utilitarianism: • The outcome of the action is what matters with utilitarianism.
It also means to use a resource for the benefit of most (e.g., tax money). It may
resemble justice, but it is not the same concept
• The Women, Infants, and Children food (WIC) program is only for pregnant women
and children.
• Outcome of the action is what matter with utilitarianism.
• It also means to use a resource for the benefit of most.
• It may resemble justice, but it is not the same concept.
• Example: WIC program is only for pregnant women and children. It is not open
to adults and elderly males. The reason maybe that it would cost society more if
women (and their fetuses), infants, and children are harmed by inadequate food
intake (affects the brain growth).
• Obligation to act in a way that is useful to or benefits the majority
18. Justice: • The quality of being fair and acting with a lack of bias
• The fair and equitable distribution of societal resources
• Example: Low income individuals do not pay some types of taxes to the government
but still have equal access to the public services supported by taxes.
19. Informed consent: • Research subjects must be informed that they have the
right to withdraw at any time without consequences or penalty
• All information must be presented on what to expect, risks, benefits, alternatives,
compensation, and confidentiality
• Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that
, ANCC AGPCNP Non-Clinical Terms questions with verified answers 2026-2027
which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible
risks and benefits.
20. Durable Power of Attorney: • A legal document that gives someone you choose
the power to act in you place.
21. Advance Directive: • A written statement of a person's wishes regarding med-
ical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried
out should be the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor.
22. Living Will: • A written statement detailing a person's desire regarding their
medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express
informed consent, especially an advance directive.
23. CPOE: • Computerized Provider Order Entry- electronic entry of medical practi-
tioner instructions for the treatment of patients under his or her care
24. EHR: • Electronic health record; digital version of patient's chart; makes informa-
tion available instantly and securely to authorized users
25. Electronic Medical Record: • Electronic version of the patient's chart; should
remain confidential as the paper chart; providers should log out of patient identifying
screens when away from the computer.
26. ICD 10: • International Classification of Diseases
• Used to indicate the diagnosis, including family history disorders.
• Each disease is assigned an ICD-10 code.
• Global health information standard for mortality and morbidity statistics.
• Increasingly used in clinical care and research to define disease and study disease
patterns, as well as manage health care, monitor outcomes and allocate resources.
27. CPT: • Current Procedural Terminology
• List of descriptive identifying codes that are used to identify procedures and
medical services.
• It owned by the AMA.
• Medical code set that is used to report medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures
and services to entities such as physicians, health insurance companies, and
accreditation organizations.
28. CMS: • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
29. Claims Based Policy: • Policy that provides coverage when a claim is made
against the policy, regardless of when the claim event took place.
• A claims-made policy is most likely to be purchased when there is a delay between
when claims are filed when they occur.
• ONLY beneficial if a claim is made while your policy active.
• You are covered when you have the policy for that period of time... ie.... you have
the policy from 2017-2018.
1. Level of Evidence Hierarchy:: 1. Meta-analysis
2. Systemic review
3. Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
4. Experiment
5. Cohort Study
6. Case Reports/Series
7. Expert Opinions/Editorials
2. Types of Research: • Meta-analysis
• Systemic review
• Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
• Experiment (Classic Research)
• Cross-Section
• Longitudinal Design
• Case Study (Report/ series)
• Field study or Naturalistic study
• Survey study
• Cohort research
3. Statute of Limitations:: • The time limit when a lawsuit can be filed or action
against a nursing licensee for alleged violation can occur. Most states are 2-3 years.
• A period of limitation for the bringing of certain kinds of legal action.
4. Standards of Practice: • Authoritative statements of the duties that all registered
nurses, regardless of role, population, or specialty are expected to perform
• It is developed by professional societies (ANA) and specialty organizations (AANP)
5. Emancipated Minor: • Can sign own legal documents
• Legally married or divorce
• Active duty in the armed forces
• These are people under the age of 18 y/o but do not require an adult for consent.
• Legal court document
6. HITECH: • Heath Information Technology or Economic and Clinical Health Act
• Promotes adoption and meaningful use of health information technology
• ACT approved in 2009 for the use of electronic health information.
• Protection of PHI enacted in 2009. PHI must be encrypted prior to sending.
• Patients must be informed if their PHI has been disclosed inappropriately even if
the disclosure was accidental.
• Providers will be offered financial incentives for demonstrating meaningful use of
EHR until 2015 then penalties.
• HITECH- signed by President Obama to transition to electronic health records.
No more paper charting. The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic
and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was signed into law with the explicit intention of
,ANCC AGPCNP Non-Clinical Terms questions with verified answers 2026-2027
accelerating the adoption and promoting the "meaningful use (MU)" of electronic
health records (EHRs) by US physicians.
7. Patient in EOL (end of life) stage ask of hospice:: • The patient is already
end stage so beneficence is not correct unless you are educating about smoking
cessation or vaccination. This is to promote good. Utilitarianism is the greater good
for a population of patients. Justice is to be fair. Which leaves us to autonomy. This
is allowing the patient to make his own choice after giving him all the information to
make a good informed decision.
• AFTT (adult failure to thrive). This is a secondary diagnosis for hospice eligibility.
So when you consult hospice for weight loss and not eating with no other major
diagnoses, this is not a good referral. Hospice is no longer able to use this as a
primary diagnosis.
8. Prescriptive Authority: • The majority of states require NPs to have a collabora-
tive agreement with a physician in order to prescribe.
• All states now allow NPs to prescribe certain controlled drugs, but with limitations
9. DEA: • Drug Enforcement Administration
• NP must obtain prescriptive authority before getting a DEA number to prescribed
controlled substances.
• Allows advanced practice nurses to obtain registration numbers for prescribing
controlled medication
• Though DEA is federal, prescriptive authority is managed by the state board
10. Certification: • Generally a "voluntary" process and is done through a non-
governmental entity such as professional nursing association or specialty organi-
zation.
• Many states mandate certification as a condition to obtain licensure
11. Licensure: • Legal requirement to practice as an NP
• Obtained through a governmental entity, the SBON
• Must meet minimal educational and clinical requirements in order to become
licensed
12. Incidence: • Conveys information about the risk of contracting a disease
• Measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's probability of being
diagnosed with a disease during a given period of time.
• Rate of new cases of the disease
13. Prevalence: • How widespread the disease is
• Measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's likelihood of having a
disease, number of alive cases with the disease
14. What are the 4 ethical principles? (and define): • Beneficence (promoting
well-being for pt. and society)
• Nonmaleficence - "above all, do no harm"
,ANCC AGPCNP Non-Clinical Terms questions with verified answers 2026-2027
• Autonomy (person acts intentionally after being given informed consent)
• Justice (equitable distribution of social benefits)
15. Beneficence: • To do good. The obligation to help the patient; to remove harm,
prevent harm, and promote good
• Acting in the patient's best interest
• Compassionate patient care
• The core principle in patient advocacy.
• Encourage a patient to stop drinking and enroll in AA program.
• Education on a new prescription about how to take the medication, health promo-
tion, education, smoking cessation
16. Nonmaleficence: • Obligation to do no harm; protecting a patient from harm
• Your patient has asthma. She brown bags her medication on this visit and you
notice a beta-blocker. You educate her that she is not a good candidate for these
drugs
• Example: Discussing risks vs. benefits of a treatment; working within SOP (stan-
dard operating procedures).
17. Utilitarianism: • The outcome of the action is what matters with utilitarianism.
It also means to use a resource for the benefit of most (e.g., tax money). It may
resemble justice, but it is not the same concept
• The Women, Infants, and Children food (WIC) program is only for pregnant women
and children.
• Outcome of the action is what matter with utilitarianism.
• It also means to use a resource for the benefit of most.
• It may resemble justice, but it is not the same concept.
• Example: WIC program is only for pregnant women and children. It is not open
to adults and elderly males. The reason maybe that it would cost society more if
women (and their fetuses), infants, and children are harmed by inadequate food
intake (affects the brain growth).
• Obligation to act in a way that is useful to or benefits the majority
18. Justice: • The quality of being fair and acting with a lack of bias
• The fair and equitable distribution of societal resources
• Example: Low income individuals do not pay some types of taxes to the government
but still have equal access to the public services supported by taxes.
19. Informed consent: • Research subjects must be informed that they have the
right to withdraw at any time without consequences or penalty
• All information must be presented on what to expect, risks, benefits, alternatives,
compensation, and confidentiality
• Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that
, ANCC AGPCNP Non-Clinical Terms questions with verified answers 2026-2027
which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible
risks and benefits.
20. Durable Power of Attorney: • A legal document that gives someone you choose
the power to act in you place.
21. Advance Directive: • A written statement of a person's wishes regarding med-
ical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried
out should be the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor.
22. Living Will: • A written statement detailing a person's desire regarding their
medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express
informed consent, especially an advance directive.
23. CPOE: • Computerized Provider Order Entry- electronic entry of medical practi-
tioner instructions for the treatment of patients under his or her care
24. EHR: • Electronic health record; digital version of patient's chart; makes informa-
tion available instantly and securely to authorized users
25. Electronic Medical Record: • Electronic version of the patient's chart; should
remain confidential as the paper chart; providers should log out of patient identifying
screens when away from the computer.
26. ICD 10: • International Classification of Diseases
• Used to indicate the diagnosis, including family history disorders.
• Each disease is assigned an ICD-10 code.
• Global health information standard for mortality and morbidity statistics.
• Increasingly used in clinical care and research to define disease and study disease
patterns, as well as manage health care, monitor outcomes and allocate resources.
27. CPT: • Current Procedural Terminology
• List of descriptive identifying codes that are used to identify procedures and
medical services.
• It owned by the AMA.
• Medical code set that is used to report medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures
and services to entities such as physicians, health insurance companies, and
accreditation organizations.
28. CMS: • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
29. Claims Based Policy: • Policy that provides coverage when a claim is made
against the policy, regardless of when the claim event took place.
• A claims-made policy is most likely to be purchased when there is a delay between
when claims are filed when they occur.
• ONLY beneficial if a claim is made while your policy active.
• You are covered when you have the policy for that period of time... ie.... you have
the policy from 2017-2018.
