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AGACNP Frances Guide
Review Questions &
Answers 2026-2027 |
Comprehensive
Certification Review
Verified Answers Exam Ready 531 QUESTIONS
DOCUMENT OVERVIEW
This comprehensive AGACNP certification review guide provides 531 questions with their
corresponding correct answers, covering advanced practice nursing. It is suitable for in-
depth study, rapid review, and direct preparation for certification exams.
TOPICS
• Professional Practice & Advocacy • Emergency Preparedness
• Health Systems & Insurance • Diagnostics & Assessment
• Cultural Competency & Health Literacy • Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
• Surgical & Procedural Care • Geriatric Care
• Pain Management & Palliative Care • Infectious Disease & Immunology
• Mental Health & Behavioral • Hematologic & Oncologic
• Integumentary System • Wound Care
• Pharmacology & Therapeutics • Nutrition & Metabolism
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,• Fluid & Electrolyte Balance • Musculoskeletal System
• Endocrine System • Cardiovascular System
• Pulmonary System • Neurological System
• Gastrointestinal System • Renal & Genitourinary
E XA M Q U EST I O N S
Q1 QUESTION 1 OF 531
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 ANSWER
a. stress importance of team
Q2 QUESTION 2 OF 531
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 ANSWER
b. join a hospital committee
Q3 QUESTION 3 OF 531
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
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, CORRECT ANSWER
c. bill for independent services
Q4 QUESTION 4 OF 531
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 ANSWER
d. start at your facility
Answers are worded differently. "decrease bias in healthcare" "create in-servises in healthcare"
"obtain funding to increase access"
Q5 QUESTION 5 OF 531
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 ANSWER
c. send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
Q6 QUESTION 6 OF 531
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
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, CORRECT ANSWER
a. libel
Q7 QUESTION 7 OF 531
How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event?
CORRECT ANSWER
Pre enroll in disaster volunteer program
Q8 QUESTION 8 OF 531
The NP program initiated, primarily, because of what issue in healthcare at the time?
CORRECT ANSWER
Pediatric physician shortage
Q9 QUESTION 9 OF 531
Privileging
CORRECT ANSWER
May be granted in full or part by the hospital, credentialing committee is made of physicians
Q10 QUESTION 10 OF 531
Informed consent
CORRECT ANSWER
A state indicating patient has received adequate instruction/information regarding aspects of
care to make a prudent, personal choice regarding such, includes risks and benefits,
competence: ability to communicate, understand, reason, differentiate good and bad
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