CMGT-BC Exam Preparation

CMGT-BC Preparation and Resources

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) provides a list of recommended references to help candidates prepare for the CMGT-BC exam, these resources provide valuable insights into nursing case management.

At BoardCerts, we create question banks and preparation materials based on these recommended references and adhere to the exam blueprints. This ensures that our practice questions are accurate, relevant, and aligned with the core competencies of nursing case management, helping candidates prepare effectively and confidently.

Key Concepts on CMGT-BC Exam

Exam Categories: Percentage Distribution

CMGT-BC Blueprint and Focus Areas

Area of FocusSubtopicsNumber of QuestionsPercent of Exam

Professional Foundation

  • ANA Code of Ethics
  • CMSA Standards of Practice (e.g., advocacy)
  • Concepts of nursing case management
  • Nursing scope and standards of practice

27

22%

Care Coordination

  • Utilization management (e.g., authorizations, denials, appeals)
  • Benefit management (e.g., reimbursement, coordination of benefits)
  • Resource coordination (e.g., providers, community)
  • Technology and trends used in care management

37

30%

Quality Management

  • Clinical guidelines
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Government health care regulations
  • Data management (e.g., collection, analysis, benchmarking)
  • Performance improvement (e.g., outcome measurement and evaluation)

32

26%

Health Promotion

  • Disease management
  • Wellness promotion
  • Patient education (e.g., readiness for change, motivational interviewing, health literacy, medication reconciliation, safety, therapeutic communication, advanced care planning)
  • Population health initiatives (e.g., screenings and risk stratification, risk-reduction strategies, health equity, social drivers and determinants of health)

29

23%

CMGT-BC Resources

  • Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements: Development, Interpretation, and Application. American Nurses Association, 2015, Silver Spring, MD.
  • Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. American Nurses Association, 2021, Silver Spring, MD.
  • CMSA Standards of Practice for Case Management, Revised. Case Management Society of America, 2022, Little Rock, AR.
  • The Ethical Case Manager: Tools and Tactics, Fink-Samnick E, 2023, Crestview, FL.
  • Wong’s Nursing Care of Infants and Children, MJ. Hockenberry, EA. Duffy, K. Gibbs, 2023. St. Louis, MO.
  • Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, DD Ignatavicius, CR. Rebar, NM. Heimgartner NM, 2024, St. Louis, MO.
  • A Practical Guide to Acute Care Case Management, The Day to Day “How To Be An Acute Care Case Manager” Resource, C. Morley, 2022, Crestview, FL.
  • The Case Manager’s Handbook, CM. Mullahy, 2017, Sudbury, MA.
  • CMSA's Integrated Case Management: A Manual for Case Managers by Case Managers, R. Perez, 2023, Springer Publishing, New York, NY.
  • Powell SK, Tahan HM. Case Management: A Practical Guide for Education and Practice, SK. Powell, HM. Tahan, 2019, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Essentials of Nursing Informatics, V. Saba, K. McCormick, 2021, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
  • Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, M. Stanhope, J. Lancaster, 2017, Elsevier, St. Louis, MO.
  • CMSA Core Curriculum for Case Management, HM. Tahan, TM. Treiger, 2016, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response, TA. Touhy, KF. Jet, 2022, Elsevier, St. Louis, MO.
  • US Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Medicare & You 2024 Handbook. 2024, Medicare & Medicaid Services, St. Louis MO.

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