The AGACNP audio streams are live course recordings, providing readily accessible lectures given by our highly qualified NP faculty. Listen to them anytime, anywhere, and repeatedly to help you affirm your grasp of the material.
They are the perfect complement to the live course, and one of the main tools for success.
Test-taking and Study Strategies for Success
Extensive Review of System-Specific Health Problems
- Cardiovascular
- Pulmonary
- Endocrine
- Neurological
- Renal/genitourinary
- GYN/STDs/STIs
- Gastrointestinal
- Hematology
- Oncology
- Immunology
- Musculoskeletal
- Miscellaneous
Psychosocial Health Issues
- Violence
- Depression
- Substance abuse
- Anxiety
- Grief
- Sexuality
- Powerlessness
- Altered mental status
Common Problems in Acute Care
- Fever
- Shock
- Nutritional imbalances
- Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances
- Poisoning and drug toxicities
- Wound management
- Infections (community, hospital, opportunistic)
- Immobility
- Palliative care (end-of-life, pain management)
- Transplantation
- Pain (acute, chronic)
Nurse Practitioner/Patient Relationship
- Professional therapeutic relationships
- Advanced directives
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Crisis intervention
- Therapeutic communication
- Patient autonomy
- Collaboration
- Cultural competence and sensitivity
Assessment and Diagnosis
- Comprehensive health assessments
- Patient risk analyses
- Epidemiology
- Screening exams
- Differential diagnoses
- Diagnostic reasoning
- Prioritization
Clinical Management
- Integrating and applying evidence-based practice
- Standards of care
- Clinical guidelines
- Management of acute, chronic, and complex conditions
- Service consultation and/or referral
- Documentation
- Health promotion
- Risk factor management
- Patient teaching
- Evaluating outcomes
Health Care Delivery
- Coordination of multidisciplinary care
- Health care policy
- Resource allocation
- Negotiating and implementing the plan of care among providers
- Navigating the health care system on behalf of the patient
- Federal and state regulations
- Health care financing
- Billing and coding
- Reimbursement and third party payers
- Access to care
- Institutional, federal and state regulations
- Continuous quality improvement
- Root cause analyses
- Sentinel events
- Conflict management
- Error prevention
Professional Responsibility
- Scope of practice
- Standards of practice
- Credentialing
- Privileging
- Time management
- Advocating for the patient
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
- Ethical principles
- Legal principles
- Patient abandonment
- Confidentiality
- Medical futility
- Informed consent
- Research methods
- Evaluating evidence
