Product Description

Excellent resource for adult and family nurse practitioner students preparing for their national certification exam. Contains over 1000 multiple choice questions with answers and rationales. Questions arranged in an easy to use format designed to help students prepare for the adult or family AANP and ANCC national certification exam.

Use the first section of the book to study by subject area. Questions divided into 14 subject specific topics (i.e., respiratory, endocrinology, hematology, urology). Test your knowledge using the 150-question practice exams (3 exams for adult students & 3 exams for family students). Special pediatric and geriatric sections too!

The Adult and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Practice Questions lists and discusses successful study skills and offers proven test-taking strategies for the national certification exams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13608 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

About the Author
Amelie Hollier is a nationally certified family nurse practitioner. She is president and CEO of Advanced Practice Education Associates (APEA). She is in clinical practice at St. Clare's Employee Health Service at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. She has co-authored and authored fifteen books for primary care providers. Dr. Hollier travels extensively throughout the US presenting on-site certification exam review courses and topics related to advanced pharmacology and primary care topics to professional APRN groups. She received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Tennessee-Memphis in December 2007. Dr. Hollier was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in the summer of 2007.

Customer Reviews

Good Book
This is an excellent book to have BEFORE you get out of NP school. This book, along with Fitzgerald's book, and Zerwekh/Claborn are essential to have during school. It will help you study for tests and retain material for later use. I am either going to buy the CDs or go to a live Hollier review. This book is a great investment.

Strange wording, but helped me pass the boards
I just passed the boards today, and wanted to comment about this book.

I will be honest that this book has some strange/poorly written questions:
i.e. The cranial nerve responsible for vision is Cranial Nerve:
a. 2.
b. II.
c. two.
d. ii.
Some answers contradict Fitzgerald and leave you shaken because you don't know who's right (i.e. Hollier says that fingers are most affected by OA, whereas Fitzgerald says knees/hips); plenty of these. I was scoring in the mid-high 80's with Leik, and then dropped down to the low 70's with Fitzgerald.

Truth is, the boards do have many of the weird questions that Hollier asks, and her answers are correct (i.e. only Hollier accurately states that with a strain/sprain, to start immediate functional rehabilitation instead of telling them to rest; she also states correctly that microalbumin should be checked in 5 years from diagnosis with DMI, and immediately with DMII.) AND Hollier includes professional and research questions, which we need more of, so thank you.

Aside from the weird questions though, the boards usually have many easier logical clinical/cultural/ethical questions. I hated it at first, but I guess Hollier just has you think about the other more obscure questions that will be asked?

Oh, and with such few books, and the importance of running practice tests, this one has three full length tests plus questions for each topic. That is appreciated.

it's OK.
It's a little out there, and while it's the only two prep test to use ( otherone being Fitzgerald), it doesnt realy reflect how the questions are structured on the exam. It's something to practice on, sometimes the answers dont really match the questions or they are inaccurate- you would think someone would proofread this before they publish it..Also no research or theory or policy- if you preping for the ANCC.