American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) · Historical examination outline effective March 1, 2010. ANCC's current PHCNS-BC page confirms renewal-only status. The historical outline is titled Public Health Nurse, Advanced Board Certification and explicitly identifies its former name as Clinical Nurse Specialist in Public/Community Health Nursing; its running headers identify CNS in Public/Community Health Nursing Board Certification. This evidenced historical mapping preserves the assigned slug and does not establish a separate current examination. The PDF also carries an older page-revision notation of January 25, 2007.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• Public/Community Health Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification (PHCNS-BC)
• Public Health Nurse, Advanced Board Certification: Test Content Outline
• ANCC Certification Renewal Handbook
• Public Health Core Functions — Six States, 1993
• National CLAS Standards
• The Belmont Report
• Adolescent Health and Development
• Principles of Epidemiology: Measures of Disease Frequency
• Principles of Epidemiology: Measures of Association
• Step 4 — Gather Credible Evidence
• CDC Field Epidemiology Manual: Collecting Data
• About Cross-Cutting Actions
• IS-700.B: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System
• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, Third Edition
• Step 2 — Describe the Program
• A Framework for Assessing the Effectiveness of Disease and Injury Prevention
• About Violence Prevention
• TeamSTEPPS: Tool — Teach-Back
• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Model for Improvement: Testing Changes
• Model for Improvement
• Step 3 — Focus the Evaluation Questions and Design