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HESI Exit Exam 799 Questions And Correct Detailed Answers (Verified Answers) Already Graded
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- Question: At 0600 while admitting a woman for a schedule repeat cesarean section (C-
Section), the client tells the nurse that she drank a cup a coffee at 0400 because she wanted to avoid getting a headache. Which action should the nurse take first?
Multiple Choices:
- Ensure preoperative lab results are available
- Start prescribed IV with lactated Ringer's
- Inform the anesthesia care provider
- Contact the client's obstetrician.
Correct Answer: c. Inform the anesthesia care provider
- Question: During a home visit, the nurse observed an elderly client with diabetes slip
and fall. What action should the nurse take first?
Multiple Choices:
- Give the client 4 ounces of orange juice
- Call 911 to summon emergency assistance
- Check the client for lacerations or fractures
- Asses clients blood sugar level
Correct Answer: c. Check the client for lacerations or fractures
- Question: During shift report, the central electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring system
alarms. Which client alarm should the nurse investigate first?
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Multiple Choices:
- Respiratory apnea of 30 seconds
- Oxygen saturation rate of 88%
- Eight premature ventricular beats every minute
- Disconnected monitor signal for the last 6 minutes.
Correct Answer: a. Respiratory apnea of 30 seconds
- Question: In assessing an adult client with a partial rebreather mask, the nurse notes
that the oxygen reservoir bag does not deflate completely during inspiration and the client's respiratory rate is 14 breaths / minute. What action should the nurse implement?
Multiple Choices:
- Encourage the client to take deep breaths
- Remove the mask to deflate the bag
- Increase the liter flow of oxygen
- Document the assessment data
Correct Answer: d. Document the assessment data
- Question: A client who recently underwent a tracheostomy is being prepared for
discharge to home. Which instructions is most important for the nurse to include in the discharge plan?
Multiple Choices:
- Explain how to use communication tools.
- Teach tracheal suctioning techniques
- Encourage self-care and independence.
- Demonstrate how to clean tracheostomy site.
Correct Answer: b. Teach tracheal suctioning techniques
- Question: A 60-year-old female client with a positive family history of ovarian cancer has
developed an abdominal mass and is being evaluated for possible ovarian cancer. Her Papanicolau (Pap) smear results are negative. What information should the nurse include in the client's teaching plan?
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Multiple Choices:
- Further evaluation involving surgery may be needed
- A pelvic exam is also needed before cancer is ruled out
- Pap smear evaluation should be continued every six month
- One additional negative pap smear in six months is needed.
Correct Answer: a. Further evaluation involving surgery may be needed
- Question: An adolescent with major depressive disorder has been taking duloxetine
(Cymbalta) for the past 12 days. Which assessment finding requires immediate follow-up?
Multiple Choices:
- Describes life without purpose
- Complains of nausea and loss of appetite
- States is often fatigued and drowsy
- Exhibits an increase in sweating.
Correct Answer: a. Describes life without purpose
8. Question: A male client with hypertension, who received new antihypertensive
prescriptions at his last visit returns to the clinic two weeks later to evaluate his blood pressure (BP). His BP is 158/106 and he admits that he has not been taking the prescribed medication because the drugs make him "feel bad". In explaining the need for hypertension control, the nurse should stress that an elevated BP places the client at risk for which pathophysiological condition?
Multiple Choices:
- Blindness secondary to cataracts
- Acute kidney injury due to glomerular damage
- Stroke secondary to hemorrhage
- Heart block due to myocardial damage
Correct Answer: c. Stroke secondary to hemorrhage
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- Question: The nurse observes an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) positioning a
newly admitted client who has a seizure disorder. The client is supine and the UAP is placing soft pillows along the side rails. What action should the nurse implement?
Multiple Choices:
- Ensure that the UAP has placed the pillows effectively to protect the client.
- Instruct the UAP to obtain soft blankets to secure to the side rails instead of pillows.
- Assume responsibility for placing the pillows while the UAP completes another task.
- Ask the UAP to use some of the pillows to prop the client in a side lying position.
- Question: Following discharge teaching, a male client with duodenal ulcer tells the
Correct Answer: b. Instruct the UAP to obtain soft blankets to secure to the side rails instead of pillows.
nurse the he will drink plenty of dairy products, such as milk, to help coat and protect his ulcer. What is the best follow-up action by the nurse?
Multiple Choices:
- Remind the client that it is also important to switch to decaffeinated coffee and tea.
- Suggest that the client also plan to eat frequent small meals to reduce discomfort
- Review with the client the need to avoid foods that are rich in milk and cream.
- Reinforce this teaching by asking the client to list a dairy food that he might select.
- Question: After placing a stethoscope as seen in the picture, the nurse auscultates S1
Correct Answer: c. Review with the client the need to avoid foods that are rich in milk and cream.
and S2 heart sounds. To determine if an S3 heart sound is present, what action should the nurse take first?
Multiple Choices:
- Side the stethoscope across the sternum.
- Move the stethoscope to the mitral site
- Listen with the bell at the same location
- Observe the cardiac telemetry monitor
