ANCC FNP-BC Certification Sample Questions

The ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Sample Question Set on this page is designed to familiarize you with the actual ANCC FNP-BC exam format and question types. These sample questions help you understand how questions are structured and what to expect on test day. While they provide a useful starting point, they represent only a limited preview of the real exam experience.

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ANCC FNP-BC Sample Questions:

01. A 13-year-old boy with obesity has limped for six weeks with a dull ache in the groin and the front of the thigh. He is afebrile. The affected leg lies turned outward, and when the hip is flexed it rolls into external rotation. There was no injury.
Which diagnosis best fits this presentation?
a) Osgood-Schlatter disease
b) Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
c) Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
d) Transient synovitis of the hip

02. A 17-year-old asks for confidential testing for a sexually transmitted infection. He is covered by his mother's health insurance, and statements describing services are mailed to her address.
Which action best protects his confidentiality?
a) Tell him before testing how billing may reveal the visit, and work through the options that avoid a statement
b) Advise him to postpone testing until he has his own insurance coverage or reaches the age of majority
c) Provide the testing and reassure him that health information about a minor cannot be released without consent
d) Provide the testing, record it under a general code and reassure him before he leaves that the statement will not describe the service

03. A 17-year-old takes a combined oral contraceptive. She is prescribed a course of an anti-infective agent that is a strong inducer of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes.
Which advice is most appropriate?
a) Take the contraceptive in the morning and the anti-infective at night, so that the two are kept well separated
b) Continue the contraceptive unchanged, since the interaction reduces the anti-infective rather than the hormone
c) Stop the contraceptive for the duration of the course and restart it once the anti-infective is finished
d) Use an additional or alternative method during the course and for a period after it ends

04. A 2-year-old who is not yet toilet trained has had fever for two days with no localizing findings. A urine sample collected in an adhesive bag shows leukocyte esterase and nitrites.
How should this result be interpreted?
a) The result cannot establish infection, so a catheter or suprapubic sample is needed before treating
b) The result is unreliable in this child, so a renal ultrasound should be arranged before any sample
c) The result confirms urinary infection, so an oral antibiotic should be started today and follow-up imaging arranged
d) The result argues against infection, since nitrites appear only after prolonged bladder incubation

05. A 25-year-old with epilepsy that has been well controlled for three years on a single agent says she and her partner hope to conceive within the year. The agent she takes is one known to carry a risk of fetal malformation.
Which action should come first?
a) Advise her to continue as she is and to return for review as soon as she has a positive pregnancy test
b) Review the regimen with neurology now, aiming to reach the safest effective option before she conceives, and start folic acid
c) Advise her to stop the agent as soon as she stops contraception, since the risk applies once she has conceived, and restart it after delivery
d) Refer her to maternal-fetal medicine and defer any change to the regimen until that assessment has taken place

06. A 28-year-old warehouse worker with chronic low back pain has completed a structured exercise program. The physical therapist's report records improved range of movement, better core endurance, and a longer distance walked. She tells you the pain is worse than when she started and that she has not been able to return to work.
Which conclusion best fits these findings?
a) The findings conflict, so an objective imaging study should be obtained to determine which account is accurate
b) The treatment has not achieved what matters to her, so the plan must be reconsidered with her account at the center
c) The objective gains show the program worked, so her report reflects pain catastrophizing that should now be targeted
d) The program was of insufficient duration, so it should be extended then reassessed at the end

07. A 5-year-old with recurrent wheeze has used an inhaled controller through a spacer for three months. Her mother reports that the night coughing has stopped, which is what prompted the treatment. She adds that her daughter still stops to rest during running games at preschool and asks to be carried home.
How should this response be interpreted?
a) Control cannot be assessed, because objective lung function testing and a formal review are required before any conclusion is drawn
b) Control is adequate, because the symptom that prompted treatment has resolved and no night waking remains
c) Control is incomplete, because the limitation she reports during activity is itself an outcome that has not improved
d) Control is adequate but the exercise limitation is separate, so a reliever before activity should be added and reviewed

08. A 9-year-old needs pain relief after a minor procedure. His mother asks about a medicine several of her relatives have taken, which has no effect until an enzyme in the liver converts it into its active form. She says her older brother became unusually drowsy on it at a routine amount, while she herself has always found it useless for pain.
Which explanation best accounts for these two different family experiences?
a) Inherited variants in the converting enzyme make some people produce far more active drug than others
b) Differences in renal elimination allow the active compound to accumulate in some family members
c) Differences in the sensitivity of the receptor the active compound binds to alter the response
d) Differences in gastric emptying alter how much of each dose is absorbed

09. An 8-year-old is seen for a cough. On examining his back you find symmetrical linear red marks over the spine and ribs. His grandmother explains that she rubbed his back with a warmed coin and oil, as her family has always done for a cough. The child is well, is not distressed, and the skin is unbroken.
Which response is most appropriate?
a) Reassure the grandmother that the practice is harmless, and continue with the assessment of the cough
b) Document the marks photographically, file a report, and then tell the grandmother why, since the pattern is not consistent with the illness
c) Ask what the practice involves and what she hopes it does, explain what would be unsafe, and record the discussion
d) Ask her not to use the practice again, and explain that any skin marking in a child is treated as an injury

10. The mother of a 4-year-old with eczema brings a printed recommendation for a systemic treatment. The document states that it was developed for adults with moderate to severe disease who have not responded to topical therapy. Her daughter's eczema is troublesome but has not been treated with anything beyond emollients.
Which response best reflects appropriate use of the recommendation?
a) Explain that the recommendation was written for a different population and for a stage of treatment her daughter has not reached
b) Explain that recommendations are graded by strength, and that a strong recommendation may be applied across age groups
c) Explain that guidelines describe average practice, and that an individual child's response is what should drive the decision
d) Explain that a recommendation loses force with time, and that a newer publication should be sought before deciding

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