AGNP Certification Intensive Review: PLUS 1,200 Questions With Detailed Rationales
The #1 bestselling AGNP review, enhanced in an all-new edition.

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.

*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.

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AGNP Certification Intensive Review: PLUS 1,200 Questions With Detailed Rationales
The #1 bestselling AGNP review, enhanced in an all-new edition.

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.

*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.

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Overview

The #1 bestselling AGNP review, enhanced in an all-new edition.

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.

*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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826170682
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Publication date: 01/05/2024
Edition description: 5th ed.
Pages: 984
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria T. Codina Leik, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C, AGPCNP-BC, is the president and principal lecturer at National ARNP Services, Inc. (npreview.com). Well known for her ability to simplify complex concepts for her students, she is a popular speaker and educator. Ms. Leik taught previously in the nurse practitioner (NP) program at Florida International University Graduate School of Nursing. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) in two specialties: family NP and adult-gerontology primary care NP. She is an experienced NP with more than two decades of clinical practice. In addition to her two NP certification review books published by Springer Publishing Company, Ms. Leik is the author of chapters in two NP textbooks and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

Table of Contents

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

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