Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review, Fourth Edition

by Maria T. Codina Leik MSN, ARNP, FNP-C, AGPCNP-BC

Overview

If you are studying for the family nurse practitioner certification exam, the highly acclaimed Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review is a must-have resource. Lauded for its concise, well-organized format, this fourth edition has been significantly revised and updated to feature key information about the new AANPCB and ANCC certification exams, all new end-of-chapter review questions, and new full-color images. The fourth edition also features four practice tests with hundreds of new questions and rationales—800 questions in total. Extensive test-taking techniques and question dissection and analysis chapters help you identify the best clues during the problem-solving process so that you can strategically master the certification exam.

Designed to help FNP candidates boost their confidence through intensive review and high-quality questions, the fourth edition continues to provide succinct, precisely targeted “need-to-know” details of diseases and classic presentations you can expect to see in practice in patients across the life span. Organized by body system, chapters are consistently formatted to include Danger Signals, Normal Findings, Lab Findings, Benign Variants, and Disease Review topics. Each chapter features valuable Exam Tips and Clinical Pearls that highlight key considerations and information likely to be encountered on the exam, ideal for a last-minute refresher before test day. Ensure success by making this essential resource—praised by thousands for helping them pass their certification—a key part of your exam prep study regimen.

Key Features:

• Includes updated information reflecting the new AANPCB and ANCC certification exams
• Introduces new end-of-chapter review questions to help you assess knowledge application and retention
• Features four practice tests with hundreds of new questions and rationales
• Provides a succinct and highly targeted review of diseases commonly seen in primary care, updated clinical information, all new color photos, and Exam Tips and Clinical Pearls to highlight key exam content
• Outlines Danger Signals, Normal Findings, Lab Findings, and Benign Variants in physical assessment of each body system
• Delineates strategic question-dissection techniques to simplify the problem-solving process
• Offers an intensive pharmacology review and review of professional issues—ethical guidelines, professional roles, reimbursement, research, evidence-based medicine and epidemiology, and cultural considerations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826163738
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/15/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	960
Sales rank:	255,180
File size:	13 MB
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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

PART I. CERTIFICATION AND EXAM INFORMATION

Chapter 1. Certification Exam Information

Chapter 2. Question Dissection and Analysis

PART II. PHARMACOLOGY AND HEALTH SCREENING REVIEW

Chapter 3. Pharmacology Review

Chapter 4. Health Promotion, Screening, and Disease Prevention Review

PART III. SYSTEMS REVIEW

Chapter 5. Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat Review

Chapter 6. Integumentary System Review

Chapter 7. Cardiovascular System Review

Chapter 8. Respiratory System Review

Chapter 9. Endocrine System Review

Chapter 10. Gastrointestinal System Review

Chapter 11. Genitourinary and Renal System Review

Chapter 12. Nervous System Review

Chapter 13. Hematopoietic System Review

Chapter 14. Musculoskeletal System Review

Chapter 15. Psychosocial-Mental Health Review

PART IV. REPRODUCTIVE REVIEW

Chapter 16. Male Reproductive System Review

Chapter 17. Female Reproductive System Review

Chapter 18. Female Reproductive System Review: Pregnancy and Childbirth

Chapter 19. Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Infections Review

PART V. PEDIATRICS AND ADOLESCENTS REVIEW

Chapter 20. Pediatrics Review: Newborns and Infants

Chapter 21. Pediatrics Review: Toddlers (Aged 2 to 3 Years)

Chapter 22. Pediatrics Review: School-Aged Children (Aged 4 to 11 Years)

Chapter 23. Adolescents Review

PART VI. GERONTOLOGY REVIEW

Chapter 24. Body and Metabolic Changes in the Older Adult

Chapter 25. Common Disorders in Geriatrics

PART VII. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE REVIEW

Chapter 26. Ethical Guidelines and Advanced Practice Law

Chapter 27. Professional Roles and Reimbursement

Chapter 28. Cultural and Spiritual Health Beliefs

Chapter 29. Nursing Research

Chapter 30. Evidence-Based Medicine and Epidemiology

PART VIII. PRACTICE EXAMS

Chapter 31. Practice Exam I

Chapter 32. Practice Exam I: Answers and Rationales

Chapter 33. Practice Exam II

Chapter 34. Practice Exam II: Answers and Rationales

Chapter 35. Practice Exam III

Chapter 36. Practice Exam III: Answers and Rationales

Chapter 37. Practice Exam IV

Chapter 38. Practice Exam IV: Answers and Rationales

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Resources

Index