Community HESI Ultimate Exam Pack |
Realistic Exam Questions and Detailed
Answers with Comprehensive Solutions
2026/2027 (Already Passed A+)
• 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 -✓✓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. -✓✓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."
-✓✓"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 -✓✓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 -✓✓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 -✓✓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
4
Temporary passive natural immunity -✓✓Longer lasting active
immunity
• A nursing student is listing factors that may improve the quality of life
of clients in the community with chronic leg ulcers. Which factor listed
by the nursing student needs correction?
1
"Nursing wound care specialists should offer suggestions to improve a
client's level of independence."
2
Realistic Exam Questions and Detailed
Answers with Comprehensive Solutions
2026/2027 (Already Passed A+)
• 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 -✓✓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. -✓✓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."
-✓✓"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 -✓✓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 -✓✓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 -✓✓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
4
Temporary passive natural immunity -✓✓Longer lasting active
immunity
• A nursing student is listing factors that may improve the quality of life
of clients in the community with chronic leg ulcers. Which factor listed
by the nursing student needs correction?
1
"Nursing wound care specialists should offer suggestions to improve a
client's level of independence."
2
