HESI Critical Thinking Questions and Answers 100% Pass
The Patient: A 70-year-old male who is relatively healthy.
The Situation: A liquid medication is prescribed for this patient.
The Question: Prior to administering the prescribed medication, what intervention has the highest priority? ✔✔Determine if the patient is allergic to the medication
The Patient: A young adult woman has smoked since she was 12 years old.
The Situation: The patient is complaining of "skipped heart beats".
The Question: Which instruction is most important for the nurse to provide this patient? ✔✔Call for assistance if she feels weak or dizzy when getting out of bed.
The Patient: An older male adult who lives at home alone.
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The Situation: The on-call home healthcare nurse is having dinner with family members in a restaurant when the patients calls on the cell phone.
The Question: What action should the nurse take? ✔✔Leave the table so the nurse can take the call in a private area.
The Patient: An adult with diabetes mellitus who was just given a morning dose of insulin which lowers the blood sugar.
The Situation: The Patients breakfast tray arrives, and the nurse notices that the pancake syrup and sugar pancakes have not been substituted with products containing artificial sweeteners.
The Question: What should the nurse do first in this situation? ✔✔Call the dietary department and request another tray.Or Remove foods containing sugar and offer sugar substitutes.
The Patient: A 55-year-old female with a family history of hypertension.
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