HESI PN Fundamentals Exam Study Guide & Practice Questions 2025 LPN
Nursing Prep GRADED A
1. Handwashing The single most important thing you can do to prevent the spread of infection
2. Medical Asepsis Reducing number of organisms or reducing the risk of transmission of organ-
isms in an environment
3. Sterilization Breaks the chain of infection at its various links of reservoir and the portal exit
4. Standard Precau- A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood
tions and other body fluids are infectious.
5. When should you - b/a patient care
wash your hands? - b/a shift
- after bathroom
- b/a handling food
- b/a handle dirty things
- b/a cleaning
- b/a handle body fluids
- after smoking
- after removing gloves or other PPE
6. Why should you Water flows from the least contaminated to the most contaminated
hold your hands
lower than your
forearms while
handwashing?
7. Hand Hygiene Breaks the chain of infection
8. Nosocomial Infec- hospital acquired infection
tion
9. What are the phas- pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission, portal of entry, new
es of infection? host
, HESI PN Fundamentals Exam Study Guide & Practice Questions 2025 LPN
Nursing Prep GRADED A
10. When is a patient Within the first 24 hours and 24 hours after starting medication
most contagious?
11. Wear gown, Caring for a contagious person (ex. C-ditt)
gloves, and ed-
ucate the family
when?
12. Transmis- measures taken to prevent the spread of diseases from people suspected to be
sion-Based infected or colonized with highly transmissible pathogens that require measures
Precautions beyond standard precautions to interrupt transmission, specifically, airborne,
droplet, and contact precautions
13. Isolation Precau- Placing an infectious patient in a private room with a private toilet and equipment
tions breaks the chain of infection the portal of exit. All equipment taken into the rooms
for use must be left in the room for this patient's use only and sterilized before
used for any other patients.
14. Droplet Precau- Use when in close contact with respiratory or mucous membrane secretions
tions
15. Proper way to re- Grasp the neckline to remove
move a gown?
16. Always use what A disinfectant (ex. bathtub, bedside tables)
to clean areas that
are used by multi-
ple patients?
17. How often should A minimum of every morning and evening Morning routine cares include? -
person cares be Assisting with bath, toileting, oral care, hair care, dressing, bedding
done?
18.
Nursing Prep GRADED A
1. Handwashing The single most important thing you can do to prevent the spread of infection
2. Medical Asepsis Reducing number of organisms or reducing the risk of transmission of organ-
isms in an environment
3. Sterilization Breaks the chain of infection at its various links of reservoir and the portal exit
4. Standard Precau- A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood
tions and other body fluids are infectious.
5. When should you - b/a patient care
wash your hands? - b/a shift
- after bathroom
- b/a handling food
- b/a handle dirty things
- b/a cleaning
- b/a handle body fluids
- after smoking
- after removing gloves or other PPE
6. Why should you Water flows from the least contaminated to the most contaminated
hold your hands
lower than your
forearms while
handwashing?
7. Hand Hygiene Breaks the chain of infection
8. Nosocomial Infec- hospital acquired infection
tion
9. What are the phas- pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission, portal of entry, new
es of infection? host
, HESI PN Fundamentals Exam Study Guide & Practice Questions 2025 LPN
Nursing Prep GRADED A
10. When is a patient Within the first 24 hours and 24 hours after starting medication
most contagious?
11. Wear gown, Caring for a contagious person (ex. C-ditt)
gloves, and ed-
ucate the family
when?
12. Transmis- measures taken to prevent the spread of diseases from people suspected to be
sion-Based infected or colonized with highly transmissible pathogens that require measures
Precautions beyond standard precautions to interrupt transmission, specifically, airborne,
droplet, and contact precautions
13. Isolation Precau- Placing an infectious patient in a private room with a private toilet and equipment
tions breaks the chain of infection the portal of exit. All equipment taken into the rooms
for use must be left in the room for this patient's use only and sterilized before
used for any other patients.
14. Droplet Precau- Use when in close contact with respiratory or mucous membrane secretions
tions
15. Proper way to re- Grasp the neckline to remove
move a gown?
16. Always use what A disinfectant (ex. bathtub, bedside tables)
to clean areas that
are used by multi-
ple patients?
17. How often should A minimum of every morning and evening Morning routine cares include? -
person cares be Assisting with bath, toileting, oral care, hair care, dressing, bedding
done?
18.
