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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Maria T. Codina Leik, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, FNP-BC, 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 previously taught 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.