HESI MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING EXAM 2024
ACTUAL HESI EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS| LATEST UPDATE 2024
1. What instruction should the NP include in the discharge teaching plan of a patient
who had a cataract extraction today?
b. Light housekeeping is permitted but avoid heavy lifting.
2. A male adult comes to the urgent care clinic 5 days after being diagnose with
influenza. He is short of breath, febrile, and coughing green colored sputum. Which
intervention should the NP implement first?
a. Obtain a sputum sample for culture
3. An elder male patient tells the NP that he is loosing sleep because he has to get up
several times at night to go to the bathroom that he has trouble starting his urinary
stream and that he does not feel like his bladder is ever completely empty. Which
intervention should the NP implement?
c. palpate the bladder above the symphysis pubis
4. An adult patient is admitted with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and a urinary tract
infection (UTI) Prescriptions for intravenous antibiotics and insulin infusion are initiated.
Which serum laboratory value warrants the most immediate intervention by the NP?
d. potassium of 2.5 meq/l
5. A patient with sickle cell anemia develops a fever during the last hour of
administration of a unit of packed red blood cell. When notifying the healthcare provider
ACTUAL HESI EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS| LATEST UPDATE 2024
1. What instruction should the NP include in the discharge teaching plan of a patient
who had a cataract extraction today?
b. Light housekeeping is permitted but avoid heavy lifting.
2. A male adult comes to the urgent care clinic 5 days after being diagnose with
influenza. He is short of breath, febrile, and coughing green colored sputum. Which
intervention should the NP implement first?
a. Obtain a sputum sample for culture
3. An elder male patient tells the NP that he is loosing sleep because he has to get up
several times at night to go to the bathroom that he has trouble starting his urinary
stream and that he does not feel like his bladder is ever completely empty. Which
intervention should the NP implement?
c. palpate the bladder above the symphysis pubis
4. An adult patient is admitted with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and a urinary tract
infection (UTI) Prescriptions for intravenous antibiotics and insulin infusion are initiated.
Which serum laboratory value warrants the most immediate intervention by the NP?
d. potassium of 2.5 meq/l
5. A patient with sickle cell anemia develops a fever during the last hour of
administration of a unit of packed red blood cell. When notifying the healthcare provider
