HESI Fundamentals Practice Exam #1 / Questions & Expertly Verified Answers, 2025 / 2026.Quiz____?A 35y/o client with cancer refuses to allow a nurse to insert an IV for scheduled chemo & states that she's ready to go home to die. What intervention should the nurse initiate? - Answer✓✓ Evaluate the client's mental status for competence to refuse treatment
Rationale: Competent clients have the right to refuse treatment. The
nurse cannot document until the HCP is notified of the patient's wishes & a d/c RX is obtained. Advance directives & DNR are not necessary for competent client to refuse care.Quiz____?A client with chronic renal disease is admitted to the hospital for evaluation prior to a surgical procedure. Which laboratory test indicates client's protein status for the longest length of time? - Answer✓✓ Serum albumin
Rationale: Serum albumin has a long half-life.
Quiz____?What client statement indicates to the nurse that the client requires assistance with bathing? - Page 1 of 26 1 / 3
Answer✓✓ "I don't understand why I'm so weak & tired." Quiz____?How should the nurse handle linens that are soiled with incontinent feces?- Answer✓✓ Place the soiled linens in a pillow case & deposit them in the dirty linen hamper Quiz____?When caring for an immobile client, what nursing diagnosis has the highest priority? - Answer✓✓ Impaired gas exchange Quiz____?The nurse assesses an immobile, elderly male client & determines that his blood pressure is 138/60, his temperature is 95.8F & his output is 100 mL of concentrated urine during the last hour. He has wet sounding lungs & increased respiratory secretions. Based on these assessment findings , what nursing action is most important for the nurse to implement? - Answer✓✓ Turn the client q2h
Rationale: It will help move & drain respiratory secretions & prevent
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Quiz____?The home health nurse visits an elderly female client who had a brain attack 3 months ago & is now able to ambulate with the assistance of a quad cane. Which assessment finding has the greatest implications for this client's care? - Answer✓✓ The nurse notes there are numerous scatter rugs throughout the house Quiz____?The nurse removes the dressing on a client's heel that is cover a pressure sore 1" in diameter & finds that there is straw-colored drainage seeping from the wound. What description of this finding should the nurse include in the client's record? - Answer✓✓ One-inch pressure sore draining serous fluid Quiz____?Medication is prescribed to be given QID. What schedule should the nurse use to administer this Rx? - Answer✓✓
0800, 1200, 1600, 2000
Quiz____?The nurse working in the ED is assessing 4 clients' ability to tolerate pain.Which client is likely to tolerate a higher level of pain? - Answer✓✓
- 55y/o woman who has had moderate low back pain for 3 months
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