AGACNP Certification Exam Prep
Test Bank | Practice Questions and
Answers for Acute Care NP Graded
A+ (2026)
• Accreditation guidelines are laid out by . Answer: the joint commission
• QI is the management process of . Answer: Monitoring
Evaluating
Continuously reviewing
Improving the quality of healthcare delivery and safety of the system
• If patient has a 0 on the RASS, then the patient is . Answer: alert and
calm
• If the patient has a +4 on the RASS, then the patient is . Answer:
combative
• What is used as pain assessment for pain in intubated patients? .
Answer: CPOT
• Using the MMSE, when does the patient have cognitive disfunction .
Answer: <24
,• Nursing informatics role . Answer: Practice
Education
Government
Industry
• This is the comparison and measurement of a healthcare organization's
services against other national healthcare organizations . Answer:
Benchmarking
• Process by which practiced RNs systematically access, monitor, and
make judgements about the quality of nursing care provided by peers
measured against professional standards of practiced . Answer: Peer
review
• Written statement of patient's intent regarding medical treatment .
Answer: Advance directive
• This Act requires that all patients entering a hospital should be advised
of their right to execute an advance directive . Answer: Patient Self-
Determination Act of 1990
• Written compilation of statements in document format that specifies
which life-proloninging measures one does and does not want to be
taken if he or she becomes incapacitated . Answer: Living Will
,• Protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when
they change of lose their jobs . Answer: COBRA; title 1 of HIPAA
• When initiating change, you always begin at the most . Answer: local
level
• In treating patients, these are always treated before psychosocial
conditions . Answer: medical
• The strongest method to evaluate teaching is . Answer: returned
demonstration
• Le Fort 1 . Answer: floating palate
• Le Fort 2 . Answer: floating maxilla
• Le Fort 3 . Answer: floating face
• Goals of healthy people 2020 . Answer: 1. Increase the quality and
years of life
2. Eliminate health disparities
• What do you have to report? . Answer: Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Syphilis
, HIV
TB
Criminal acts and injury from a dangerous weapon
Animal bites
Suspected or actual child/elder abuse
• What is collaboration . Answer: True partnership
• If a patient is receiving comfort measures and death is imminent within
6 months or less, then the patient can be placed on . Answer: hospice
• Sets the standard for reimbursement and cutting costs . Answer:
Medicare
• Varies from state to state . Answer: Medicaid
• A limited examination of the affected body area or organ system .
Answer: Problem focused
• A limited examination of the affected body area or organ system and
any other symptomatic or related body areas or organ systems . Answer:
Expanded problem focused
Test Bank | Practice Questions and
Answers for Acute Care NP Graded
A+ (2026)
• Accreditation guidelines are laid out by . Answer: the joint commission
• QI is the management process of . Answer: Monitoring
Evaluating
Continuously reviewing
Improving the quality of healthcare delivery and safety of the system
• If patient has a 0 on the RASS, then the patient is . Answer: alert and
calm
• If the patient has a +4 on the RASS, then the patient is . Answer:
combative
• What is used as pain assessment for pain in intubated patients? .
Answer: CPOT
• Using the MMSE, when does the patient have cognitive disfunction .
Answer: <24
,• Nursing informatics role . Answer: Practice
Education
Government
Industry
• This is the comparison and measurement of a healthcare organization's
services against other national healthcare organizations . Answer:
Benchmarking
• Process by which practiced RNs systematically access, monitor, and
make judgements about the quality of nursing care provided by peers
measured against professional standards of practiced . Answer: Peer
review
• Written statement of patient's intent regarding medical treatment .
Answer: Advance directive
• This Act requires that all patients entering a hospital should be advised
of their right to execute an advance directive . Answer: Patient Self-
Determination Act of 1990
• Written compilation of statements in document format that specifies
which life-proloninging measures one does and does not want to be
taken if he or she becomes incapacitated . Answer: Living Will
,• Protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when
they change of lose their jobs . Answer: COBRA; title 1 of HIPAA
• When initiating change, you always begin at the most . Answer: local
level
• In treating patients, these are always treated before psychosocial
conditions . Answer: medical
• The strongest method to evaluate teaching is . Answer: returned
demonstration
• Le Fort 1 . Answer: floating palate
• Le Fort 2 . Answer: floating maxilla
• Le Fort 3 . Answer: floating face
• Goals of healthy people 2020 . Answer: 1. Increase the quality and
years of life
2. Eliminate health disparities
• What do you have to report? . Answer: Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Syphilis
, HIV
TB
Criminal acts and injury from a dangerous weapon
Animal bites
Suspected or actual child/elder abuse
• What is collaboration . Answer: True partnership
• If a patient is receiving comfort measures and death is imminent within
6 months or less, then the patient can be placed on . Answer: hospice
• Sets the standard for reimbursement and cutting costs . Answer:
Medicare
• Varies from state to state . Answer: Medicaid
• A limited examination of the affected body area or organ system .
Answer: Problem focused
• A limited examination of the affected body area or organ system and
any other symptomatic or related body areas or organ systems . Answer:
Expanded problem focused
