ANCC AGACNP 100 PERCENT CORRECT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
✔✔Certification vs. Licensure - ✔✔Certification by agencies, Licensure by state
✔✔Decisional capacity components - ✔✔Understand, reason, differentiate,
communicate
✔✔First US NP - ✔✔Loretta Ford, started NP in pediatrics in 1964
✔✔Inpatient NP development - ✔✔Result of managed care, hospital restructuring
✔✔NP roles - ✔✔Clinicians, consultants, educators, researchers
✔✔Experimental study criteria - ✔✔Randomization, control group
✔✔Deductive vs. inductive reasoning - ✔✔Deductive: general to specific, Inductive:
specific to general
✔✔USPSTF recommendation grades - ✔✔A: high benefit, B: moderate benefit, C: small
benefit, D: harm, I: insufficient evidence
✔✔Sensitive test definition - ✔✔Identifies true positives, minimal false negatives
✔✔High specificity test meaning - ✔✔Identifies true negatives, minimal false positives
✔✔Nightingale's nursing theory - ✔✔Restorative environment focus
✔✔Fay Abdullah's nursing theory - ✔✔Holistic care approach
✔✔Orem's nursing theory - ✔✔Professional care management focus
✔✔Roger's nursing theory - ✔✔Energy field perspective
✔✔Leininger's nursing theory - ✔✔Culture care emphasis
✔✔WHO's pain management ladder - ✔✔Stepwise approach with analgesics and
opioids
✔✔Fever definition & monitoring - ✔✔Elevated body temp, watch for 101.5 F
✔✔Tension headaches description - ✔✔Common, bilateral, frontotemporal band-like
discomfort
, ✔✔Migraine headache characteristics - ✔✔Unilateral, throbbing, episodic
✔✔Migraine types - ✔✔Classical (aura) and common (no aura)
✔✔Cluster headaches features - ✔✔Severe, unilateral, periorbital pain in men
✔✔Critical thinking in nursing - ✔✔Patient-centered, outcome-driven thought
✔✔Anthrax PEP drug - ✔✔Doxycycline
✔✔Organophosphate poisoning symptoms & treatment - ✔✔AMS, diaphoresis, atropine
treatment
✔✔Cyanide poisoning antidote - ✔✔Sodium nitrite
✔✔MI likelihood indicators - ✔✔Radiation of pain, third heart sound, hypotension
✔✔Diarrhea lab finding - ✔✔Metabolic acidosis due to salt loss
✔✔Soft systolic murmur in pregnancy - ✔✔Normal, no concern unless HF symptoms
✔✔Radiation of pain - ✔✔Pain felt in areas other than the origin site
✔✔S4 heart sound - ✔✔Abnormal heart sound indicating heart failure
✔✔Metabolic acidosis - ✔✔Acidic pH due to loss of alkaline salts
✔✔Ejection systolic murmur - ✔✔Heart murmur during ejection phase
✔✔Diastolic murmurs - ✔✔Abnormal heart sounds during relaxation phase
✔✔Incidental adrenal mass - ✔✔Adrenal mass found unintentionally
✔✔Cardiac tamponade symptoms - ✔✔Equalization of diastolic pressures, distant heart
sounds, jugular vein distention
✔✔potassium - ✔✔Ion responsible for cardiac myocyte depolarization
✔✔Fibrinolytic therapy duration - ✔✔3.5-4 hours for thrombotic CVA
✔✔Optimal hemoglobin level - ✔✔11-12 g/dL
✔✔HBsAg - ✔✔Hepatitis B surface antigen indicating infection
✔✔Certification vs. Licensure - ✔✔Certification by agencies, Licensure by state
✔✔Decisional capacity components - ✔✔Understand, reason, differentiate,
communicate
✔✔First US NP - ✔✔Loretta Ford, started NP in pediatrics in 1964
✔✔Inpatient NP development - ✔✔Result of managed care, hospital restructuring
✔✔NP roles - ✔✔Clinicians, consultants, educators, researchers
✔✔Experimental study criteria - ✔✔Randomization, control group
✔✔Deductive vs. inductive reasoning - ✔✔Deductive: general to specific, Inductive:
specific to general
✔✔USPSTF recommendation grades - ✔✔A: high benefit, B: moderate benefit, C: small
benefit, D: harm, I: insufficient evidence
✔✔Sensitive test definition - ✔✔Identifies true positives, minimal false negatives
✔✔High specificity test meaning - ✔✔Identifies true negatives, minimal false positives
✔✔Nightingale's nursing theory - ✔✔Restorative environment focus
✔✔Fay Abdullah's nursing theory - ✔✔Holistic care approach
✔✔Orem's nursing theory - ✔✔Professional care management focus
✔✔Roger's nursing theory - ✔✔Energy field perspective
✔✔Leininger's nursing theory - ✔✔Culture care emphasis
✔✔WHO's pain management ladder - ✔✔Stepwise approach with analgesics and
opioids
✔✔Fever definition & monitoring - ✔✔Elevated body temp, watch for 101.5 F
✔✔Tension headaches description - ✔✔Common, bilateral, frontotemporal band-like
discomfort
, ✔✔Migraine headache characteristics - ✔✔Unilateral, throbbing, episodic
✔✔Migraine types - ✔✔Classical (aura) and common (no aura)
✔✔Cluster headaches features - ✔✔Severe, unilateral, periorbital pain in men
✔✔Critical thinking in nursing - ✔✔Patient-centered, outcome-driven thought
✔✔Anthrax PEP drug - ✔✔Doxycycline
✔✔Organophosphate poisoning symptoms & treatment - ✔✔AMS, diaphoresis, atropine
treatment
✔✔Cyanide poisoning antidote - ✔✔Sodium nitrite
✔✔MI likelihood indicators - ✔✔Radiation of pain, third heart sound, hypotension
✔✔Diarrhea lab finding - ✔✔Metabolic acidosis due to salt loss
✔✔Soft systolic murmur in pregnancy - ✔✔Normal, no concern unless HF symptoms
✔✔Radiation of pain - ✔✔Pain felt in areas other than the origin site
✔✔S4 heart sound - ✔✔Abnormal heart sound indicating heart failure
✔✔Metabolic acidosis - ✔✔Acidic pH due to loss of alkaline salts
✔✔Ejection systolic murmur - ✔✔Heart murmur during ejection phase
✔✔Diastolic murmurs - ✔✔Abnormal heart sounds during relaxation phase
✔✔Incidental adrenal mass - ✔✔Adrenal mass found unintentionally
✔✔Cardiac tamponade symptoms - ✔✔Equalization of diastolic pressures, distant heart
sounds, jugular vein distention
✔✔potassium - ✔✔Ion responsible for cardiac myocyte depolarization
✔✔Fibrinolytic therapy duration - ✔✔3.5-4 hours for thrombotic CVA
✔✔Optimal hemoglobin level - ✔✔11-12 g/dL
✔✔HBsAg - ✔✔Hepatitis B surface antigen indicating infection
