CGFNS Certification Program

What you will practice:

• Professional role, ethics, and legal accountability
• Nursing process, documentation, and communication
• Cultural, spiritual, and patient education support

• Professional Nursing Role
• Scope of practice for registered nurses
• Accountability for delegated and independent actions
• Advocacy for client rights and informed decision-making
• Ethical responsibilities (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice)
• Professional boundaries
• Maintaining competence and continuing education
• Nursing Process
• Comprehensive assessment (physical, psychosocial, cultural)
• Formulating nursing diagnoses
• Developing individualized care plans
• Implementing evidence-based interventions
• Evaluating outcomes and revising care
• Communication
• Therapeutic communication techniques
• SBAR reporting
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Conflict resolution
• Documentation standards and legal charting
• Handling difficult conversations
• Cultural & Spiritual Care
• Cultural assessment
• Respect for health beliefs and traditional practices
• Spiritual support during illness and end-of-life
• Language barriers and interpreter use
• Teaching & Learning
• Assessing readiness to learn
• Health literacy considerations
• Teaching medications, procedures, and self-care
• Discharge education
• Evaluating learning effectiveness

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Clinical judgment for recognising deterioration and complications
• Prioritisation frameworks (ABCs, Maslow, stability)
• Delegation, supervision, and time management

• Clinical Judgment
• Recognizing abnormal findings
• Linking signs/symptoms to disease processes
• Anticipating complications
• Identifying deteriorating clients
• Prioritization Frameworks
• ABCs (Airway, Breathing, Circulation)
• Maslow’s hierarchy
• Acute vs chronic
• Stable vs unstable
• Actual vs potential problems
• Delegation & Supervision
• RN vs LPN vs assistive personnel roles
• Appropriate task assignment
• Supervision requirements
• Evaluating delegated care
• Time Management
• Organizing multiple client assignments
• Reprioritizing as conditions change
• Managing interruptions

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Infection prevention and isolation precautions
• Medication, equipment, and environmental safety
• Quality improvement, incident reporting, and risk reduction

• Infection Prevention
• Standard precautions
• Contact, droplet, airborne isolation
• PPE selection
• Aseptic technique
• Patient Safety
• Fall prevention strategies
• Safe transfers and positioning
• Equipment checks
• Oxygen safety
• Medication Safety
• Rights of medication administration
• Error prevention strategies
• High-alert medications
• Look-alike/sound-alike drugs
• Environmental Safety
• Fire safety
• Electrical hazards
• Home safety education
• Quality Improvement
• Incident reporting
• Root cause awareness
• Prevention of sentinel events
• Documentation of adverse outcomes

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Med-surg assessment and management across major body systems
• Monitoring, interventions, and patient education for common conditions
• Recognising complications and escalation

• Cardiovascular
• Hypertension
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart failure
• Dysrhythmias
• Peripheral vascular disease
• Respiratory
• Asthma
• COPD
• Pneumonia
• Pulmonary embolism
• Oxygen therapy
• Neurological
• Stroke
• Seizure disorders
• Increased intracranial pressure
• Head injury
• Parkinson’s disease
• Gastrointestinal
• Peptic ulcer disease
• GERD
• Liver cirrhosis
• Bowel obstruction
• Ostomy care
• Renal & Urologic
• Acute and chronic kidney disease
• Dialysis care
• UTIs
• Fluid balance
• Endocrine
• Diabetes mellitus
• Thyroid disorders
• Adrenal dysfunction
• Musculoskeletal
• Fractures
• Arthritis
• Traction
• Joint replacement
• Hematologic & Immune
• Anemia
• Bleeding disorders
• HIV/AIDS
• Autoimmune diseases

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Safe medication administration and dosage calculations
• Major drug classes, interactions, and adverse effects
• IV therapy, infusion monitoring, and blood product safety

• Medication Administration
• Routes (oral, IM, SQ, IV)
• Dosage calculations
• Timing and documentation
• Major Drug Classes
• Cardiovascular agents
• Antibiotics
• Antidiabetics
• Analgesics
• Anticoagulants
• Psychiatric medications
• Adverse Effects
• Allergic reactions
• Toxicity
• Contraindications
• Drug interactions
• IV Therapy
• Peripheral IV care
• Infusion pump monitoring
• Infiltration/extravasation recognition
• Blood Products
• Transfusion protocols
• Reaction identification

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum assessment and complications
• Fetal monitoring and obstetric emergencies
• Essential newborn assessment and care

• Antepartum
• Prenatal assessment
• High-risk pregnancy
• Labor & Delivery
• Stages of labor
• Fetal monitoring
• Obstetric emergencies
• Postpartum
• Hemorrhage
• Infection
• Breastfeeding support
• Newborn Care
• APGAR scoring
• Thermoregulation
• Feeding
• Jaundice

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Growth and development principles for safe care
• Common paediatric conditions and fluid management
• Weight-based medication safety and child protection

• Growth & Development
• Milestones
• Developmentally appropriate care
• Common Conditions
• Respiratory infections
• Dehydration
• Congenital anomalies
• Pediatric Medication Safety
• Weight-based dosing
• Child Protection
• Abuse recognition
• Injury prevention

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Therapeutic communication and psychosocial assessment
• Core psychiatric disorders and crisis intervention
• Substance use, coping, grief, and behavioural safety

• Therapeutic Communication
• Active listening
• Boundary setting
• Psychiatric Disorders
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Bipolar disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Crisis Intervention
• Suicide precautions
• Acute agitation
• Substance Use Disorders
• Withdrawal management
• Dependency
• Coping & Grief
• Chronic illness adaptation
• End-of-life emotional care

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Fundamentals of bedside care and activities of daily living
• Mobility, skin integrity, and pain management
• Nutrition, hydration, and elimination support

• Activities of Daily Living
• Hygiene
• Feeding
• Toileting
• Nutrition & Hydration
• Special diets
• Enteral feeding
• Mobility & Skin Integrity
• Turning schedules
• Pressure injury prevention
• Range-of-motion exercises
• Pain Management
• Pain assessment tools
• Non-pharmacologic comfort
• Elimination
• Catheter care
• Ostomy care

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.

What you will practice:

• Early recognition and management of unstable patients
• Shock, sepsis, respiratory failure, and fluid/electrolyte imbalance
• Post-op care, wounds/drains, and emergencies

• Shock & Sepsis
• Early signs
• Nursing interventions
• Respiratory Failure
• Oxygen therapy
• Suctioning
• Fluid & Electrolyte Imbalances
• Dehydration
• Fluid overload
• Wounds & Drains
• Dressing changes
• Output monitoring
• Postoperative Care
• Complication prevention
• Pain control
• Emergencies
• Cardiac arrest
• Trauma
• Acute bleeding

Tip: After topic practice, do mixed sets under time pressure and review missed questions immediately.