AONN CERTIFICATION PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Original model of navigation - ✔✔Outreach->Pt Navigation->Rehab
✔✔What year did ACOS agree w/IOM that psychosocial had to be integrated into
routine cancer care? - ✔✔2012
✔✔What year did ACOS publish standards on psychosocial care that are necessary for
accreditation? - ✔✔2015
✔✔What year did AONN change its name? - ✔✔2013
✔✔When did ONS implement NN role? - ✔✔2008
✔✔When was the Affordable Care Act Passed? - ✔✔2010
✔✔When was "Patient Navigation" first coined? - ✔✔1990 by Harold Freeman in
Harlem, NY
✔✔Where can you find more info on health insurance? - ✔✔National Coalition for
Cancer Survivorship
✔✔Nurses Evolution into Navigation - ✔✔-Utilization review
-Utilization management
-Case management
-Pt Navigation with focus on community
-Pt navigation with focus on coordination of care/transition of care
✔✔Navigator Types: - ✔✔RN- 55%
APN- 20%
SW- 7%
Nonclinical- 13%
Other- 8%
✔✔Desired qualities for NN based on following tenets: - ✔✔-Culturally competent care
-Confidentiality
-Respect
-Compassion
-Pt safety
✔✔Characteristics of Navigator - ✔✔-Preferably from the community of pts being
served
-Compassion w/sincere desire to help
, -Understand issues: financial, cultural, educational & social barriers to care in the
community
-Communicate effectively
-Organized/creative problem-solving solutions
-Highly resourceful/able to research resources
✔✔Patient Navigation, Outreach, & Chronic Disease Prevention Act was signed into law
in what year - ✔✔2005
✔✔SMART - ✔✔Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely
✔✔AONN+ mission - ✔✔Dedicate to improving pt care & quality of life by defining &
enhancing & promoting the role of oncology nurse & pt navigators
✔✔1985, Mullan described three phases of cancer survivor ship: Seasons of Survival -
✔✔Acute Survivorship
Extended survivorship
Permanent survivorship
✔✔Mullan Acute survivorship - ✔✔diagnosis & treatment
-begins at moment of dx, extends through initial tx
✔✔Mullan Extended survivorship - ✔✔post-treatment
-Time of watchful waiting with celebration, uncertainty
-Which is beyond tx to periods or remission, recurrence, or maintenance
✔✔Mullan Permanent survivorship - ✔✔Long-team survivorship
-Refers to the time of diminished probability of recurrence, commonly called- cure
✔✔Miller Seasons of Survival revisited: Transitional survivorship - ✔✔When celebration
is blended with worry & loss as the pt pulls away from the treatment team
- is the time when what has hapened to you becomes reality
✔✔Miller Seasons of Survival Revisited: Extended Survivorship - ✔✔Includes those
who are living with cancer as a chronic disease as well as those in remission because
of ongoing treatment
✔✔Miller Seasons of Survival Revisited: Permanent survivorship - ✔✔Includes not only
those who are in remission & asymptomatic, but those who are "cancer-free but not free
of cancer"
-B/c of late & long-term effects
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Original model of navigation - ✔✔Outreach->Pt Navigation->Rehab
✔✔What year did ACOS agree w/IOM that psychosocial had to be integrated into
routine cancer care? - ✔✔2012
✔✔What year did ACOS publish standards on psychosocial care that are necessary for
accreditation? - ✔✔2015
✔✔What year did AONN change its name? - ✔✔2013
✔✔When did ONS implement NN role? - ✔✔2008
✔✔When was the Affordable Care Act Passed? - ✔✔2010
✔✔When was "Patient Navigation" first coined? - ✔✔1990 by Harold Freeman in
Harlem, NY
✔✔Where can you find more info on health insurance? - ✔✔National Coalition for
Cancer Survivorship
✔✔Nurses Evolution into Navigation - ✔✔-Utilization review
-Utilization management
-Case management
-Pt Navigation with focus on community
-Pt navigation with focus on coordination of care/transition of care
✔✔Navigator Types: - ✔✔RN- 55%
APN- 20%
SW- 7%
Nonclinical- 13%
Other- 8%
✔✔Desired qualities for NN based on following tenets: - ✔✔-Culturally competent care
-Confidentiality
-Respect
-Compassion
-Pt safety
✔✔Characteristics of Navigator - ✔✔-Preferably from the community of pts being
served
-Compassion w/sincere desire to help
, -Understand issues: financial, cultural, educational & social barriers to care in the
community
-Communicate effectively
-Organized/creative problem-solving solutions
-Highly resourceful/able to research resources
✔✔Patient Navigation, Outreach, & Chronic Disease Prevention Act was signed into law
in what year - ✔✔2005
✔✔SMART - ✔✔Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely
✔✔AONN+ mission - ✔✔Dedicate to improving pt care & quality of life by defining &
enhancing & promoting the role of oncology nurse & pt navigators
✔✔1985, Mullan described three phases of cancer survivor ship: Seasons of Survival -
✔✔Acute Survivorship
Extended survivorship
Permanent survivorship
✔✔Mullan Acute survivorship - ✔✔diagnosis & treatment
-begins at moment of dx, extends through initial tx
✔✔Mullan Extended survivorship - ✔✔post-treatment
-Time of watchful waiting with celebration, uncertainty
-Which is beyond tx to periods or remission, recurrence, or maintenance
✔✔Mullan Permanent survivorship - ✔✔Long-team survivorship
-Refers to the time of diminished probability of recurrence, commonly called- cure
✔✔Miller Seasons of Survival revisited: Transitional survivorship - ✔✔When celebration
is blended with worry & loss as the pt pulls away from the treatment team
- is the time when what has hapened to you becomes reality
✔✔Miller Seasons of Survival Revisited: Extended Survivorship - ✔✔Includes those
who are living with cancer as a chronic disease as well as those in remission because
of ongoing treatment
✔✔Miller Seasons of Survival Revisited: Permanent survivorship - ✔✔Includes not only
those who are in remission & asymptomatic, but those who are "cancer-free but not free
of cancer"
-B/c of late & long-term effects
