HESI Fundamentals Exam

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HESI Fundamentals Exam / Strategies Review of Key Quizzes & Correct Answers.Quiz____?a 35 year old female client with cancer refuses to allow the nurse to insert an IV for a scheduled chemotherapy treatment, and states that she is ready to go home and die. What intervention should the nurse initiate?

  • evaluate the client's mental status for competence to refuse treatment
  • review the client's medical record for an advance directive
  • determine if a DNR prescription has been obtained
  • document that the client is being discharged against medical advice -
  • Answer✓✓

  • evaluate the client's mental status for competence to refuse treatment
  • Quiz____?A client with chronic renal disease is admitted to the hospital for evaluation prior to a surgical procedure. Which laboratory test indicated the client's protein status for the longest length of time.

  • Urine urea
  • transferrin
  • prealbumin
  • serum albumin -
  • Answer✓✓

  • serum albumin
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What client statement indicates to the nurse that the client requires assistance with bathing?

  • "I only bathe every other day"
  • "I left my eyeglasses at home"
  • "I don't understand why I'm so weak and tired"
  • "I wasn't able to pack a bag before I left for the hospital" -
  • Answer✓✓

  • "I don't understand why I'm so weak and tired"
  • Quiz____?How should a nurse handle linens that are soiled with incontinent feces?

  • Place the soiled linens in a pillow case and deposit them in the dirty
  • linen hamper

  • put the soiled linens in an isolation bag, then place it in the dirty linen
  • hamper

  • Ask the housekeeping staff to pick up the soiled linen from the dirty
  • utility room

  • place an isolation hamper in the client's room and discard the linens in
  • it - Answer✓✓

  • place an isolation hamper in the client's room and discard the linens in
  • it Quiz____?When caring for an immobile client, what nursing diagnosis has the highest priority?

  • altered tissue perfusion
  • impaired gas exchange
  • risk for fluid volume deficit
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  • risk for impaired skin integrity -
  • Answer✓✓

  • impaired gas exchange
  • Quiz____?The nurse assess an immobile, elderly male client and determines that his blood pressure is 138/60, his temperature is 95.8F, and his output is 100 mL of concentrated urine during the last hour. He has wet-sounding lung sounds, and increased respiratory secretions. Based on these assessment findings, what nursing action is the most important for the nurse to implement?

  • encourage additional additional fluid intake
  • provide the client with an additional blanket
  • turn the patient Q2
  • administer a PRN anti hypertensive prescription -
  • Answer✓✓

  • turn the patient Q2
  • Quiz____?The home health nurse visits an elderly female client who had a brain attack three months ago and is now able to ambulate with the assistance of a quad cane. Which assessment finding has the greatest implications for this client's case?

  • The client's pulse rate is 10 beats higher than it was at the last visit one
  • week ago

  • the client tells the nurse that she does not have much of an appetite
  • today

  • the husband, who is the caregiver, begins to weep when you ask how
  • he is doing

  • the nurse notes that there are numerous scatter rubs throughout the
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