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NSG 123 HESI FINAL EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE
EXAM LATEST 2025 TEST BANK| QUESTIONS
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NURSING I FINAL EXAM 2025 (NEWEST!!)
What is the best advice about nutrition for the toddler?
- Encourage cup drinking and give water between meals and snacks.
- Encourage unlimited milk intake, because toddlers need the protein for growth.
- Avoid sugar-sweetened fruit drinks and allow as much natural fruit juice as
- Allow the toddler unlimited access to the sippy cup to ensure adequate
desired.
hydration. - ANSWER - A
To gain cooperation from a toddler, what is the best approach by the nurse?
- Immediately pick the toddler up from the mother's lap.
- Kneel in front of the toddler while he or she is on the mother's lap.
- Do the nursing tasks quickly so the toddler can play.
- Ask the toddler if it is okay if you begin the needed task. - ANSWER - B
The nurse is caring for a hospitalized 4-year-old who insists on having the nurse perform every assessment and intervention on her imaginary friend first. She then agrees to have the assessment or intervention done to herself. The nurse identifies
this preschooler's behavior as:
- Problematic; the child is old enough to begin to have a basis in reality.
- Normal, because the child is hospitalized and out of her routine.
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- Problematic, as it interferes with needed nursing care. - ANSWER - C
The mother of a 3-year-old is concerned about her child's speech. She describes her preschooler as hesitating at the beginning of sentences and repeating consonant sounds. What is the nurse's best response?
- Hesitancy and dysfluency are normal during this period of development.
- Reading to the child will help model appropriate speech.
- Expressive language concerns warrant a developmental evaluation.
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ANSWER - A
The mother of a 4-year-old asks for advice on using time-out for discipline with her child. What advice should the nurse give the mother?
- If spanking is not working, then time-out is not likely to be helpful either.
- Place the child in time-out for 4 minutes.
- Use time-out only if removing privileges is unsuccessful.
- The child should stay in time-out until crying ceases. - ANSWER - B
A 5-year-old child is not gaining weight appropriately. Organic problems have been ruled out. What is the priority action by the nurse?
- Allow the child unlimited access to the sippy cup to ensure adequate hydration.
- Encourage sweets for the extra caloric content.
- Teach the mother about nutritional needs of the preschooler.
- Assess the child's usual intake pattern at home. - ANSWER - D
The nurse is providing teaching about accidental poisoning to the family of a 3- year-old. The nurse understands that a child of this age is at increased risk of accidental ingestion due to which sensory alteration? 2 / 4
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- A lack of fully developed hearing.
- A less discriminating sense of touch.
- Visual acuity that has not fully developed.
- A less discriminating sense of taste. - ANSWER - D
The successful resolution of developmental tasks for the school-age child,
according to Erikson, would be identified by:
- Learning from repeating tasks
- Developing a sense of worth and competence
- Using fantasy and magical thinking to cope with problems
- Developing a sense of trust - ANSWER - B
Which of the following are reasons that stealing occurs in school-age children?(Choose all that apply.)
- To escape punishment
- High self-esteem
- Low expectations of family/ peers
- Lack of sense of property
- Strong desire to own something - ANSWER - A, D, E
Which activities will promote weight loss in an obese school-age child? (Choose all that apply.)
- Unlimited computer and TV time
- Role modeling by family
- Becoming active in sports
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- Involving child in meal planning and grocery shopping
- Drinking three glasses of water per day - ANSWER - B, C, E
As the school nurse conducting screening for vision in a 6-year-old child, you
would refer the child to a specialist if the visual acuity in both eyes is:
- 20/ 20
- 20/ 25
- 20/ 30
- 20/ 50 - ANSWER - D
In developing a weight-loss plan for an adolescent, which would the nurse include?(Choose all that apply.)
- Have parents make all of the meal plans.
- Eat slowly and place the fork down between each bite.
- Have the family exercise together.
- Refer to an adolescent weight-loss program.
- Keep a food and exercise diary. - ANSWER - B, C, D, E
Which is associated with early adolescence? (Choose all that apply.)
- Uses scientific reasoning to solve problems
- Still at times wants to be dependent upon parents
- Incorporates own set of morals and values
- Is influenced by peers and values memberships in cliques - ANSWER - B, D
What has the most influence in deterring an adolescent from beginning to drink alcohol?
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