AGNP Certification Intensive Review
PLUS 1,200 Questions With Detailed Rationales
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Updated to reflect the current AANPCB and ANCC blueprints, Maria Leik's AGNP Intensive Review, Fifth Edition is everything you expect from the #1 selling AGNP review book—and more.This high-yield, guided review shows the same respect for your time and mental energy as it does for the exam material it covers.
Organized by body system and featuring an enhanced Pharmacology Review and expanded Question Dissection and Analysis chapter, the design of this updated review focuses on organizing and presenting information the way you can expect to encounter it on the exam and in clinical practice.
Leik balances her succinct coverage of the required exam topics with more than 1,200 unique questions detailed rationales for correct and incorrect answers, and invaluable test-taking tips and clinical pearls.
Plan to pass on your first attempt with this best-selling AGNP Review.
Features and updates to this fifth edition:
- Enriched Question Dissection and Analysis chapter to help you recognize correct and incorrect answers on the exam.
- Restructured Pharmacology Review that moves from broad concepts to detailed dosing guidelines and prescription drugs categorized by diagnosis for quick reference.
- 4 practice exams, including detailed rationales for every question.
- More than 1,200 total questions, weighted as the exam.
- Enriched diabetes and COVID-19 coverage. Because the more you see it in family practice, the more likely you'll see it on the exam.
- Full-color photographs, illustrations, and tables to help you visualize and retain complex information.
- An updated section on dating pregnancy in the Female Reproductive System Review.
- Certification Exam Information updated and organized to differentiate between ANCC and AANP exams—with enhanced coverage of exam structure and strategies for exam time management.
- NEW! Professional Roles and Reimbursement Review to prepare you for exam questions on reimbursement, medical coding, and updates to the Affordable Care Act.
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*The certifying bodies for the AGNP exam are the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). AANPCB and ANCC do not sponsor or endorse this resource, nor do they have a proprietary relationship with Springer Publishing.
Contributors and Reviewers
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION I. CERTIFICATION AND EXAM INFORMATION
Chapter 1. Certification Exam Information
Chapter 2. Question Dissection and Analysis
SECTION II. PHARMACOLOGY AND HEALTH SCREENING OVERVIEW
Chapter 3. Pharmacology Review
Chapter 4. Health Screening and Promotion Review: Adolescents and Adults
Chapter 5. Health Screening and Promotion Review: Older Adults and Frail Elderly
SECTION III. SYSTEMS REVIEW
Chapter 6. Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat Review
Chapter 7. Integumentary System Review
Chapter 8. Cardiovascular System Review
Chapter 9. Respiratory System Review
Chapter 10. Endocrine System Review
Chapter 11. Gastrointestinal System Review
Chapter 12. Genitourinary and Renal System Review
Chapter 13. Nervous System Review
Chapter 14. Hematopoietic System Review
Chapter 15. Musculoskeletal System Review
Chapter 16. Psychiatric–Mental Health Review
SECTION IV. REPRODUCTIVE REVIEW
Chapter 17. Male Reproductive System Review
Chapter 18. Female Reproductive System Review
Chapter 19. Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Infections Review
Chapter 20. Adolescents Review
SECTION V. GERONTOLOGY REVIEW
Chapter 21. Theory and Conceptual Models Applied to Gerontology
Chapter 22. Body and Metabolic Changes in the Older Adult
Chapter 23. Common Disorders in Geriatrics
Chapter 24. Pressure Injuries, Wounds, and Advanced Practice Procedures
SECTION VI. PROFESSIONAL ROLE REVIEW
Chapter 25. Hospice and Support Services
Chapter 26. Gerontology and Long-Term Care
Chapter 27. Ethical Guidelines and Advanced Practice Law
Chapter 28. Professional Roles and Reimbursement Review
Chapter 29. Nursing Research
Chapter 30. Evidence-Based Medicine and Epidemiology
SECTION VII. PRACTICE TESTS
Chapter 31. Practice Test I
Chapter 32. Practice Test I: Answers
Chapter 33. Practice Test II
Chapter 34. Practice Test II: Answers
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Index
DIGITAL-ONLY PRACTICE TESTS
Practice Test III
Practice Test IV

- Release Date: January 5, 2024
- Paperback / softback
- 984 Pages
- Trim Size: 8in x 10in
- ISBN: 9780826170682
- eBook ISBN: 9780826170699