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ANCC AGACNP FRANCES EXAM 200 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS/A+ GRADE ASSURED

You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How should
you present this issue to the committee?
a. Stress importance of the team (look up evidence about how team affects outcomes)
b. Describe how to improve and expand the team - ANSWER a. stress importance of
team

What is the best way for the AGACNP to get involved in policy making?
a. attend legislative days at the state capitol
b. join a hospital committee
c. write your local congressman
d. review literature and give more in-services - ANSWER b. join a hospital committee

What is the best way for the AGACNP to demonstrate and advocate for full scope of
practice?
a. join a hospital committee
b. petition the government
c. bill for independent services
d. start your own practice - ANSWER c. bill for independent services

Which of the following is considered a high acuity role for the AGACNP?
a. primary care clinic
b. cardiology office
c. community health department
d. minute clinic - ANSWER b. cardiology office

What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population?
a. participate in a high state or national level
b. join a non-profit advocacy group
c. consider lobbying the government
d. start at your facility - ANSWER d. start at your facility
Answers are worded differently. "decrease bias in healthcare" "create in-servises in
healthcare" "obtain funding to increase access"

Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance when
reviewing the literature?
a. consider the sample size
b. make sure the confidence interval is tight
c. see if the p-value is less than the alpha-coefficient
d. determine the error rate - ANSWER a. consider the sample size

When closing a practice, the NP is required to do all of the following except
a. give the patient adequate time to find another provder

, ANCC AGACNP FRANCES EXAM 200 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS/A+ GRADE ASSURED
b. keep all of the patient's records for a minimum of five years
c. send a certified letter with a return receipt requested
d. provide names of other providers for future care - ANSWER c. send a certified letter
with a return receipt requested

Which of the following components of an evidenced based research process is the most
important for NP to participate in?
a. specifying methods of data collection
b. formulating the hypothesis
c. carefully reviewing the literature
d. formulating the research problem - ANSWER d. formulating the research problem

A former pt of an NP is writing blog posts, sending emails, and distributing false,
accusatory statements about the NP's practice. Which of the following forms of
defamation is this?
a. libel
b. slander - ANSWER a. libel

Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? - ANSWER
No, not without his permission

How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? - ANSWER
Pre enroll in disaster volunteer program

An 80 year old male patient with dementia requires long-term care placement. To which
funding agency does the patient apply after "spending down" to qualify? - ANSWER
Medicaid

Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on Medicaid.
You instruct the patient that Medicaid: - ANSWER Pays after insurance and 3rd party
payers have paid

You are giving a dinner presentation to a group. The pharmaceutical rep calls you the
night before and wants you to say that their drug is the only one that workds. What
ethical principles does this challenge? - ANSWER Veracity and fidelity

Health literacy - ANSWER Average american: 8th grade level

Quality assurance - ANSWER A process for evaluating the care of patients using
established standards of care to ensure quality

CPI - ANSWER Measures structure, processes, and outcomes

A root cause analysis of a crisis situation in the ICU identified a lack of clinician-family
communication as the basis for the resulting adverse outcome. As part of the
performance improvement plan, the NP is asked to develop evidence-based policies to

, ANCC AGACNP FRANCES EXAM 200 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS/A+ GRADE ASSURED
establish clinician-family communication standards in the unit. These policies should
include: - ANSWER Guidelines for having discussions with family members that are
geared toward establishing treatment goals

Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process
change? - ANSWER An increased incidence of postoperative sternal wound infections

Goals set forth in healthy people 2020 by the US department of Health and Human
services include: - ANSWER elimination of health disparities (and increased QOL/LOL)

Based on the individual's culture, ethnicity, and personal choices, the NP can optimize
the therapeutic partnership with the patient by: - ANSWER Tailoring his or her
communication style to the patient's preference

A 70 year old patient with a history of DM, HTN, OAs, and a new diagnosis of CAD, is
being discharged. The adult-gerontology acute care NP teaches the patient that the first
point of contact for health care needs is the: - ANSWER PCP

The NP is asked to provide evidence to the hospital administration about the safety of
NP placing central lines. Which resource provides the strongest level of evidence? -
ANSWER A systematic review (meta analysis)

What legislation allowed NPs to be recognized Medicare providers in all geographical
areas with their own provider number? - ANSWER Balanced Budget act

True/false: restraining an unwilling patient is grounds for malpractice? - ANSWER
False, if they are a danger you can restrain

Patient presents to the clinic for routine f/u and passes out. You revive the patient and
admit overnight. Which of the following would qualify as incident to billing? - ANSWER
Temperature and weight recording

The NP program initiated, primarily, because of what issue in healthcare at the time? -
ANSWER Pediatric physician shortage

Elderly patient takes a turn for the worse. The husband is crying when you enter the
room and begins telling you what end-of-life care he prefers. What do you do? -
ANSWER Ask him to speak candidly with you

Patient calls to complain about bills and states he has Medicare, which should cover all
costs. You explain: - ANSWER Since you are healthy, exams are not covered

Doc calls from another center asking if you can tell him what kind of orders he should
give for maintenance of patient... - ANSWER No, HIPPA

Patient in ER not doing well, primary MD calls: - ANSWER Give him info

, ANCC AGACNP FRANCES EXAM 200 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS/A+ GRADE ASSURED
NP working on ESRD research project. A colleague renal specialist asks for patient info
on your patients: - ANSWER HIPAA breach

Who enforces HIPAA? - ANSWER Office of Civil Rights/Dept Health and Human
Services

Who isn't covered by HIPAA? - ANSWER Law enforcment/municipal offices,
CPS/Schools, employers/workman's comp, life insurance

Insurance company calling to verify some patient appointments? - ANSWER Answer by
picking out that there is already a medical release signed by the patient and give the
requested information to them

Benchmarking - ANSWER How institution compares with similar organizations

Managed care - ANSWER Know what this is and how it has improved costs, something
about putting caps on payments

Peer review - ANSWER Timely, not anonymous, and NP knows how peer review will
impact yearly evaluation

Sensitivity vs specificity - ANSWER Sensitivity: true positives, specificity: true negatives

There was a question where a patient had a multinodular goiter and wanted to know
why the NP was not going to do periodic US and fine needle biopsy in monitoring for
some kind of cancer or complication. The answer I picked was that these tests were not
very specific to detect the cancer

Reliability - ANSWER When implementing a new study, tested over and over, the
consistency of a measurement or the degree to which an instrument measures the
same way over time

Validity of results in an article - ANSWER P-value, probability of falsely rejecting the null
hypothesis, want it to be <0.05

Statistical significance - ANSWER Look at sample size and p value

Privileging - ANSWER May be granted in full or part by the hospital, credentialing
committee is made of physicians

Who determines scope of practice? - ANSWER State practice acts but institutional
bylaws may further restrict practice (facility limited scope of practice)

Informed consent - ANSWER A state indicating patient has received adequate
instruction/information regarding aspects of care to make a prudent, personal choice

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