COMMUNITY HESI STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ A nurse advises a client to refrain from adding salt to food as a
way to help ease high blood pressure. What kind of health care
service is this?
1
Tertiary care
2
Primary care
3
Preventive care
4
Restorative care. Answer: Primary care
◉ During a regular checkup, a pregnant client reports constipation.
Which strategies should the nurse recommend? Select all that apply.
1
Exercise regularly.
2
Take a mild laxative before breakfast.
3
,Drink at least one caffeinated beverage daily.
4
Add a few tablespoons of wheat bran to cereal at breakfast.
5
Plan to have a bowel movement at the same time every day.. Answer:
1, 4, 5
◉ The school nurse presents a class on female reproduction to a
group of junior high school girls. Which statement by a student after
the class indicates a need for clarification of the teaching?
1
"A girl can get pregnant before she's had her first period."
2
"Women with big breasts have more milk after they have a baby."
3
"Girls lose less than 5 tablespoons of blood when they have a
period."
4
"When a girl is born she already has all of the eggs that she'll ever
have.". Answer: "Women with big breasts have more milk after they
have a baby"
◉ A nurse is teaching a birthing/prenatal class about breast-feeding.
Which hormone stimulates the production of milk during lactation?
,1
Inhibin
2
Estrogen
3
Prolactin
4
Progesterone. Answer: Prolactin
◉ A nurse is teaching a community group about the basics of
nutrition. A participant questions why fluoride is added to drinking
water. The nurse should respond that it is a necessary element
added to drinking water to promote what?
1
Dental health
2
Growth and development
3
Improved hearing
4
Night vision. Answer: dental health
, ◉ A client who has become a mother for the first time appears
anxious about her new parenting role. The nurse recommends that
she join a support group for new mothers at the local YWCA. Which
type of prevention is this?
1
Tertiary
2
Primary
3
Secondary
4
Therapeutic. Answer: Primary
◉ The parent of a 17-year-old adolescent who is going to be a
foreign exchange student asks the nurse why the child must have a
tetanus toxoid immunization instead of the immune globulin. The
nurse responds that the tetanus toxoid immunization provides
what?
1
Lifelong passive immunity
2
Longer lasting active immunity
3
Temporary active natural immunity
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ A nurse advises a client to refrain from adding salt to food as a
way to help ease high blood pressure. What kind of health care
service is this?
1
Tertiary care
2
Primary care
3
Preventive care
4
Restorative care. Answer: Primary care
◉ During a regular checkup, a pregnant client reports constipation.
Which strategies should the nurse recommend? Select all that apply.
1
Exercise regularly.
2
Take a mild laxative before breakfast.
3
,Drink at least one caffeinated beverage daily.
4
Add a few tablespoons of wheat bran to cereal at breakfast.
5
Plan to have a bowel movement at the same time every day.. Answer:
1, 4, 5
◉ The school nurse presents a class on female reproduction to a
group of junior high school girls. Which statement by a student after
the class indicates a need for clarification of the teaching?
1
"A girl can get pregnant before she's had her first period."
2
"Women with big breasts have more milk after they have a baby."
3
"Girls lose less than 5 tablespoons of blood when they have a
period."
4
"When a girl is born she already has all of the eggs that she'll ever
have.". Answer: "Women with big breasts have more milk after they
have a baby"
◉ A nurse is teaching a birthing/prenatal class about breast-feeding.
Which hormone stimulates the production of milk during lactation?
,1
Inhibin
2
Estrogen
3
Prolactin
4
Progesterone. Answer: Prolactin
◉ A nurse is teaching a community group about the basics of
nutrition. A participant questions why fluoride is added to drinking
water. The nurse should respond that it is a necessary element
added to drinking water to promote what?
1
Dental health
2
Growth and development
3
Improved hearing
4
Night vision. Answer: dental health
, ◉ A client who has become a mother for the first time appears
anxious about her new parenting role. The nurse recommends that
she join a support group for new mothers at the local YWCA. Which
type of prevention is this?
1
Tertiary
2
Primary
3
Secondary
4
Therapeutic. Answer: Primary
◉ The parent of a 17-year-old adolescent who is going to be a
foreign exchange student asks the nurse why the child must have a
tetanus toxoid immunization instead of the immune globulin. The
nurse responds that the tetanus toxoid immunization provides
what?
1
Lifelong passive immunity
2
Longer lasting active immunity
3
Temporary active natural immunity
