AONN Certification
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Exams
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. What are Cancer Costs by 2020 - Correct Answer: $173 Billion
2. When was Affordable Care Act Passed - Correct Answer: 2010
3. What is the Affordable Care Act - Correct Answer: By 1/1/14 citizens
must have health ins or pay penalty
4. What is NCCN Distress Thermometer - Correct Answer: Tool to identify
barriers and issues of distress
5. What is Mullan's Seasons of Survival Model - Correct Answer: 3 stages
of survival - Acute, Extended, Permanent
6. What is Bidimensional Orientation of NN Role - Correct Answer: Patient-
centered and healthcare system-centered
,7. What is the Freeman Model - Correct Answer: Navigation model using
community members to help underserved and poor gain access to breast
cancer screenings
8. What is Major Purpose of Navigation - Correct Answer: Provide personal
assistance in eliminating barriers to care
9. What is Belmont Report and Informed Consent - Correct Answer:
Informed Consent is an example of the ethical principle Autonomy
10.When did ONS Implemented NN Role - Correct Answer: 2008
11.Lillie's Book When - Correct Answer: 2011
12.When was Patient Navigation Research Program Formed - Correct
Answer: 2002
13.What is CoC Standard 3.1 - Correct Answer: ID and address a new
barrier each year
14.What is Palliative Care - Correct Answer: Symptom Management, not
hospice
15.What is #1 of wishes in dying patients? - Correct Answer: Be Kept Clean
(99% of patients)
,16.What to Expect --> Physical Condition - Correct Answer: 96% of patients
say this is important
17.What % of patients wish to die at home - Correct Answer: 50-90%
18.How many patients die at home - Correct Answer: 10-35%
19.How many patients die in hospitals - Correct Answer: 50-60%
20.What is average length of time pt receives hospice - Correct Answer: 5
days
21.What is % ICU deaths of metastatic patients - Correct Answer: 21%
22.What do patients think when they hear: "Hopeful your tumor will respond
to this treatment" - Correct Answer: 30-81% patients think "cure"
23.True/False: Being honest doesn't take away hope - Correct Answer: True
24.What is #1 fear of entering hospice - Correct Answer: Fear of
abandonment by their doctor
, 25.What are 3 Phases of Hope? - Correct Answer: 1) miracle, 2) long life
w/quality of life, 3) accepting shortened life but still hope for quality of life
26.What is the mean cost of cancer care in last 6 months of life? - Correct
Answer: $74,000 (only 4% is hospice)
27.True/False: Advanced Directives are just CPR - Correct Answer: False
28.True/False: Poor communication is why pts don't get care they desire -
Correct Answer: True
29.What is Role of Navigation - Correct Answer: Improve patient's timely
access to cancer-related care throughout the cancer continuum
30.When Was Term "Patient Navigation" First Coined - Correct Answer:
1990's by Harold Freeman in Harlem, NY
31.What was increase in 5-year survival rate after Freeman's program -
Correct Answer: Increased from 39% to 70% in breast cancer, 94% of whom
were black
32.What was decrease in late stage diagnosis after Freeman's program -
Correct Answer: Decreased from 50% to 20% for his black patients
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Exams
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. What are Cancer Costs by 2020 - Correct Answer: $173 Billion
2. When was Affordable Care Act Passed - Correct Answer: 2010
3. What is the Affordable Care Act - Correct Answer: By 1/1/14 citizens
must have health ins or pay penalty
4. What is NCCN Distress Thermometer - Correct Answer: Tool to identify
barriers and issues of distress
5. What is Mullan's Seasons of Survival Model - Correct Answer: 3 stages
of survival - Acute, Extended, Permanent
6. What is Bidimensional Orientation of NN Role - Correct Answer: Patient-
centered and healthcare system-centered
,7. What is the Freeman Model - Correct Answer: Navigation model using
community members to help underserved and poor gain access to breast
cancer screenings
8. What is Major Purpose of Navigation - Correct Answer: Provide personal
assistance in eliminating barriers to care
9. What is Belmont Report and Informed Consent - Correct Answer:
Informed Consent is an example of the ethical principle Autonomy
10.When did ONS Implemented NN Role - Correct Answer: 2008
11.Lillie's Book When - Correct Answer: 2011
12.When was Patient Navigation Research Program Formed - Correct
Answer: 2002
13.What is CoC Standard 3.1 - Correct Answer: ID and address a new
barrier each year
14.What is Palliative Care - Correct Answer: Symptom Management, not
hospice
15.What is #1 of wishes in dying patients? - Correct Answer: Be Kept Clean
(99% of patients)
,16.What to Expect --> Physical Condition - Correct Answer: 96% of patients
say this is important
17.What % of patients wish to die at home - Correct Answer: 50-90%
18.How many patients die at home - Correct Answer: 10-35%
19.How many patients die in hospitals - Correct Answer: 50-60%
20.What is average length of time pt receives hospice - Correct Answer: 5
days
21.What is % ICU deaths of metastatic patients - Correct Answer: 21%
22.What do patients think when they hear: "Hopeful your tumor will respond
to this treatment" - Correct Answer: 30-81% patients think "cure"
23.True/False: Being honest doesn't take away hope - Correct Answer: True
24.What is #1 fear of entering hospice - Correct Answer: Fear of
abandonment by their doctor
, 25.What are 3 Phases of Hope? - Correct Answer: 1) miracle, 2) long life
w/quality of life, 3) accepting shortened life but still hope for quality of life
26.What is the mean cost of cancer care in last 6 months of life? - Correct
Answer: $74,000 (only 4% is hospice)
27.True/False: Advanced Directives are just CPR - Correct Answer: False
28.True/False: Poor communication is why pts don't get care they desire -
Correct Answer: True
29.What is Role of Navigation - Correct Answer: Improve patient's timely
access to cancer-related care throughout the cancer continuum
30.When Was Term "Patient Navigation" First Coined - Correct Answer:
1990's by Harold Freeman in Harlem, NY
31.What was increase in 5-year survival rate after Freeman's program -
Correct Answer: Increased from 39% to 70% in breast cancer, 94% of whom
were black
32.What was decrease in late stage diagnosis after Freeman's program -
Correct Answer: Decreased from 50% to 20% for his black patients
