Kaplan's Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Prep is your step-by-step guide to success on the FNP exam, with review and practice for FNP exams from both credentialing organizations—the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). This Second Edition is thoroughly reworked and updated to focus on how to apply clinical skills, using a problem-solving approach to diagnosis and management.
Here’s what makes our guide stand apart:
• Focus on chief concerns. The book is organized around chief concerns rather than traditional body-system formats, offering a more intuitive, real-world approach to generating the differential diagnosis. Common chief concerns are then broken down by body system.
• Case-based approach. Each chapter features a patient scenario, with guided discussion to strengthen your clinical reasoning and understanding.
• Learn by example. Follow along as an experienced clinician applies a problem-solving approach to the diagnosis and management of the patient’s chief concern.
• Concise outline format. Short paragraphs and bullet points put the information that’s most crucial for exam success front and center.
Created and reviewed by experienced mid-level clinicians and educators, this versatile resource is suitable for all clinicians, especially those at the entry level seeking clarity and confidence in generating the differential diagnosis.
Proven Strategies. Realistic Practice.
• 46 succinct chapters investigating chief concerns commonly seen in family practice
• 13 diagnostic areas organizing the chief concerns: Integumentary, HEENT, Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Female health, Musculoskeletal, Neurological, Endocrine, Hematologic, Psychiatric, and Health promotion & population-based care
• Practice questions in each chapter, with detailed rationales for correct and incorrect answer options
• Sick and well visit approaches for encounters with patients ranging in age from newborn to geriatric
• Guided examples of clinical decision-making at each step in patient management
• Callout boxes identifying associated conditions, distinguishing similar presentations, and more
• Parallel presentation of topics across the book for easy navigation
• Index by body system or chief concern, and index by diagnosis
Expert Guidance.
• Exclusive test-taking strategies, study tips, and clinical reasoning that optimize your preparation—including Kaplan’s Nurse Practitioner Decision Tree
• The official course book used in Kaplan’s highly regarded FNP Review Course
• We know the test—Kaplan’s experts ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the exam
• We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years, and our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams
