AGACNP-1 SESSIONS 1&2: SCOPE OF
PRACTICE, BILLING & CODING,
HEALTH PROMOTION EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Patient Characteristics: Vulnerability - Answer-Susceptibility to actual or potential
stressors
Patient Characteristics: Stability - Answer- Ability to maintain a steady state of
equilibrium
Patient Characteristics: Complexity - Answer-Intricate entanglement of 2 or more
systems
Patient Characteristics: Resource Availability - Answer-Extent of resources the pt,
fam., & community bring to the situation
Patient Characteristics: Participation in Care - Answer-Extent to which a pt & fam
engages in aspects of care
Patient Characteristics: Participation in Decision-Making - Answer-Extent to which pt
& fam. engage in decision-making
Patient Characteristics: Predictability - Answer-Summative characteristic that allows
one to expect a certain trajectory of illness
Synergy: Assumptions - Answer-Nurses create an environment of care
Impact areas are interrelated & may change as a fxn of experience, situation, setting
Nurses work to optimize outcomes
Nurse bring their background to each situation, various levels of edu., knowledge,
skills, experience.
Synergy: Nurse Characteristics - Answer--Clinical Judgement
-Clinical Inquiry
-Collab.
-Learning Facilitator
-Caring Practices
-Response to Diversity
-System thinking
-Advocacy/Moral Agency
, Nurse Characteristics: Clinical Judgement - Answer--Clinical reasoning
-Decision making
-Diagnostic reasoning
Nurse Characteristics: Advocacy & Moral Agency - Answer--Working on another's
behalf
-Serving as a moral agent to ID & help resolve ethical & clinical concerns
Nurse Characteristics: Caring Practices - Answer--Responsiveness to the
uniqueness of pt & fam.
-Create a compassionate environment
-Promote comfort
-Prevent suffering
Nurse Characteristics: Collaboration - Answer-Intra- & Inter-professional work w/
colleagues & community
Nurse Characteristics: Systems Thinking - Answer-Managing environmental &
system resources for pt/fam. w/in or across health care system
Nurse Characteristics: Response to Diversity - Answer-Recognize, appreciate, &
incorporate differences into provision of care
Nurse Characteristics: Clinical Inquiry - Answer--Questioning & evaluating practice
-Creating practice change through research
Nurse Characteristics: Facilitator of Learning - Answer--Learning for pt/fam., staff,
HC team members
-Formal & informal
Assumptions of Synergy Model - Answer--The whole person must be considered
-Each pt, fam., community contribute to context for nurse-pt relationship
-Patients are described by a number of characteristics
-Nurses are described by a number of dimensions
-Nursing goal to restore a pt to optimal level of wellness as defined by the pt
Synergy: Clinical Judgement - Answer--Heart of nursing
-Art & science of decision-making
-Providing clinical expertise
-Diagnosis
-Planning
-Effective Implementation & eval of interventions approp. to complexity of probs. &
resources of the system
-Predict clinical pic. & dev. proactive & preventative interventions to manage clinical
outcomes
PRACTICE, BILLING & CODING,
HEALTH PROMOTION EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Patient Characteristics: Vulnerability - Answer-Susceptibility to actual or potential
stressors
Patient Characteristics: Stability - Answer- Ability to maintain a steady state of
equilibrium
Patient Characteristics: Complexity - Answer-Intricate entanglement of 2 or more
systems
Patient Characteristics: Resource Availability - Answer-Extent of resources the pt,
fam., & community bring to the situation
Patient Characteristics: Participation in Care - Answer-Extent to which a pt & fam
engages in aspects of care
Patient Characteristics: Participation in Decision-Making - Answer-Extent to which pt
& fam. engage in decision-making
Patient Characteristics: Predictability - Answer-Summative characteristic that allows
one to expect a certain trajectory of illness
Synergy: Assumptions - Answer-Nurses create an environment of care
Impact areas are interrelated & may change as a fxn of experience, situation, setting
Nurses work to optimize outcomes
Nurse bring their background to each situation, various levels of edu., knowledge,
skills, experience.
Synergy: Nurse Characteristics - Answer--Clinical Judgement
-Clinical Inquiry
-Collab.
-Learning Facilitator
-Caring Practices
-Response to Diversity
-System thinking
-Advocacy/Moral Agency
, Nurse Characteristics: Clinical Judgement - Answer--Clinical reasoning
-Decision making
-Diagnostic reasoning
Nurse Characteristics: Advocacy & Moral Agency - Answer--Working on another's
behalf
-Serving as a moral agent to ID & help resolve ethical & clinical concerns
Nurse Characteristics: Caring Practices - Answer--Responsiveness to the
uniqueness of pt & fam.
-Create a compassionate environment
-Promote comfort
-Prevent suffering
Nurse Characteristics: Collaboration - Answer-Intra- & Inter-professional work w/
colleagues & community
Nurse Characteristics: Systems Thinking - Answer-Managing environmental &
system resources for pt/fam. w/in or across health care system
Nurse Characteristics: Response to Diversity - Answer-Recognize, appreciate, &
incorporate differences into provision of care
Nurse Characteristics: Clinical Inquiry - Answer--Questioning & evaluating practice
-Creating practice change through research
Nurse Characteristics: Facilitator of Learning - Answer--Learning for pt/fam., staff,
HC team members
-Formal & informal
Assumptions of Synergy Model - Answer--The whole person must be considered
-Each pt, fam., community contribute to context for nurse-pt relationship
-Patients are described by a number of characteristics
-Nurses are described by a number of dimensions
-Nursing goal to restore a pt to optimal level of wellness as defined by the pt
Synergy: Clinical Judgement - Answer--Heart of nursing
-Art & science of decision-making
-Providing clinical expertise
-Diagnosis
-Planning
-Effective Implementation & eval of interventions approp. to complexity of probs. &
resources of the system
-Predict clinical pic. & dev. proactive & preventative interventions to manage clinical
outcomes
