EXIT HESI 500-599 QUESTIONS &
ELABORATED ANSWERS PASSED
100% CORRECT
When conducting diet teaching for a client who was diagnosed with hypoparathyroidism,
which foods should the nurse encourage the client to eat? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Yogurt.
- Processed cheese
The nurse is assessing a middle-aged adult who is diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Which
factor in this client's history is a contributor to the osteoarthritis? - Correct Answer ✔✔ •
Long distance runner since high school.
When assessing a male client, the nurse notes that he has unequal lung expansion.
What
conclusion regarding this finding is most likely to be accurate? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • A
collapsed lung
The nurse manager is conducting an in-services education program on the fire
evacuation of the newborn recovery. What intervention should the nurse manager
disseminate to the staff? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Evacuate each infant with mother via
wheelchair
An adult man reports that he recently experienced an episode of chest pressure and
breathlessness when he was jogging in the neighborhood. He expresses concern
because both
of his deceased parents had heart disease and his father was a diabetic. He lives with
his male
partner, is a vegetarian, and takes atenolol which maintains his blood pressure at
138/74.
Which risk factors should be explored? Select all that apply - Correct Answer ✔✔
History of hypertension. -- Family heath history.
A client with severe full-thickness burns is scheduled for an allografting procedure.
Which information should the nurse provide the client? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Human
source grafts require monitoring for signs of graft rejection
The nurse is administering a 750 ml cleansing enema to an adult client. After
approximately150 ml of enema has informed, the client states, 'stop I can't hold
anymore."
What action should the nurse take? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Clamp the tubing and
instruct the client to breathe deeply before continuing.
, The nurse requests a meals tray for a client follows Mormon beliefs and who is on clear
liquid diet following abdominal surgery. Which meal item should the nurse request for
this
client? (SATA) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Apple juice - Chicken broth
The nursing staff on a medical unit includes a registered nurse (RN), practical nurse
(LPN),
and unlicensed assistant personnel (UAP). Which task should the charge nurse assign
to the
RN? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Supervised a newly hired graduate nurse during an
admission assessment
Following breakfast, the nurse is preparing to administer 0900 medications to clients on
a medical floor. Which medication should be held until a later time? - Correct Answer
✔✔ • The mucosal barrier, sucralfate (Carafate), for a client diagnosed with peptic ulcer
disease.
The father of 4-year-old has been battling metastatic lung cancer for the past 2 years.
After discussing the remaining options with his healthcare provider, the client requests
that all
treatment stop and that no heroic measures be taken to save his life. When the client is
transferred to the palliative care unit, which action is most important for the nurse
working on
the palliative care unit to take in facilitating continuity of care? - Correct Answer ✔✔ •
Obtain a detailed report from the nurse transferring the client.
The nurse is making a home visit to a male client who is in the moderate stage of
Alzheimer's disease. The client's wife is exhausted and tells the nurse that the family
plans to
take turns caring for the client in their home, each keeping him for two weeks at a time.
How
should the nurse respond? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Suggest enrolling the client in adult
daycare instead of rotating among family.
The healthcare provider prescribes oxycodone/ aspirin 1 tab PO every 4h as needed for
pain, for a client with polycystic kidney disease. Before administering this medication,
which
component of the prescription should the nurse question? - Correct Answer ✔✔ •
Aspirin content.
A young adult male was admitted 36 hours ago for a head injury that occurred as the
result of a motorcycle accident. In the last 4 hours, his urine output has increased to
over 200
ml/H. Before reporting the finding to the healthcare provider, which intervention should
the
ELABORATED ANSWERS PASSED
100% CORRECT
When conducting diet teaching for a client who was diagnosed with hypoparathyroidism,
which foods should the nurse encourage the client to eat? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Yogurt.
- Processed cheese
The nurse is assessing a middle-aged adult who is diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Which
factor in this client's history is a contributor to the osteoarthritis? - Correct Answer ✔✔ •
Long distance runner since high school.
When assessing a male client, the nurse notes that he has unequal lung expansion.
What
conclusion regarding this finding is most likely to be accurate? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • A
collapsed lung
The nurse manager is conducting an in-services education program on the fire
evacuation of the newborn recovery. What intervention should the nurse manager
disseminate to the staff? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Evacuate each infant with mother via
wheelchair
An adult man reports that he recently experienced an episode of chest pressure and
breathlessness when he was jogging in the neighborhood. He expresses concern
because both
of his deceased parents had heart disease and his father was a diabetic. He lives with
his male
partner, is a vegetarian, and takes atenolol which maintains his blood pressure at
138/74.
Which risk factors should be explored? Select all that apply - Correct Answer ✔✔
History of hypertension. -- Family heath history.
A client with severe full-thickness burns is scheduled for an allografting procedure.
Which information should the nurse provide the client? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Human
source grafts require monitoring for signs of graft rejection
The nurse is administering a 750 ml cleansing enema to an adult client. After
approximately150 ml of enema has informed, the client states, 'stop I can't hold
anymore."
What action should the nurse take? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Clamp the tubing and
instruct the client to breathe deeply before continuing.
, The nurse requests a meals tray for a client follows Mormon beliefs and who is on clear
liquid diet following abdominal surgery. Which meal item should the nurse request for
this
client? (SATA) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Apple juice - Chicken broth
The nursing staff on a medical unit includes a registered nurse (RN), practical nurse
(LPN),
and unlicensed assistant personnel (UAP). Which task should the charge nurse assign
to the
RN? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Supervised a newly hired graduate nurse during an
admission assessment
Following breakfast, the nurse is preparing to administer 0900 medications to clients on
a medical floor. Which medication should be held until a later time? - Correct Answer
✔✔ • The mucosal barrier, sucralfate (Carafate), for a client diagnosed with peptic ulcer
disease.
The father of 4-year-old has been battling metastatic lung cancer for the past 2 years.
After discussing the remaining options with his healthcare provider, the client requests
that all
treatment stop and that no heroic measures be taken to save his life. When the client is
transferred to the palliative care unit, which action is most important for the nurse
working on
the palliative care unit to take in facilitating continuity of care? - Correct Answer ✔✔ •
Obtain a detailed report from the nurse transferring the client.
The nurse is making a home visit to a male client who is in the moderate stage of
Alzheimer's disease. The client's wife is exhausted and tells the nurse that the family
plans to
take turns caring for the client in their home, each keeping him for two weeks at a time.
How
should the nurse respond? - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Suggest enrolling the client in adult
daycare instead of rotating among family.
The healthcare provider prescribes oxycodone/ aspirin 1 tab PO every 4h as needed for
pain, for a client with polycystic kidney disease. Before administering this medication,
which
component of the prescription should the nurse question? - Correct Answer ✔✔ •
Aspirin content.
A young adult male was admitted 36 hours ago for a head injury that occurred as the
result of a motorcycle accident. In the last 4 hours, his urine output has increased to
over 200
ml/H. Before reporting the finding to the healthcare provider, which intervention should
the
