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HESI COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW FOR THE NCLEX-RN
EXAMINATION 2025 NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 510 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY
GRADED A+
What types of procedures should be assigned to professional
nurses? ......ANSWER........Sterile or invasive procedures.
Negligence is measured by reasonableness.
List the 4 elements that are necessary to prove negligence.
......ANSWER........Duty.
Failure to protect client again unreasonable risk. Breach of duty.
Failure to perform according to established standards.
Causation. A connection exists between conduct of the nurse and
the resulting damage. Damages. Damage is done to the client,
physical or mental.
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Define an intentional tort and five one example.
......ANSWER........Conduct causing damage to another person in
a willful or intentional way without just cause.
Example Hitting a client out of anger, not in a manner of self
protection.
Voluntary admission ......ANSWER........Client admits self to an
institution for treatment and restrains his or her civil rights. He or
she may leave at any time.
Involuntary admission ......ANSWER........Someone other than client
applies for the client's admission to an institution requires
certification by 1 or 2 health care providers that the person is a
danger to self or others.
List 5 activities a person who is declared incompetent cannot
perform. ......ANSWER........Vote, make contracts or wills, drive a
care, sue or be sued, hold a professional license.
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Name 3 legal requirements of a surgical permit
......ANSWER........Voluntary, informed, and written.
Who may give consent for medical treatment?
......ANSWER........Alert, coherent, or otherwise competent adults,
a parent or legal guardian, a person in loco parentis of minors
or incompetent adults.
What law protects the nurse who provides care or gives aid in
an emergency situation? ......ANSWER........The Good Samaritan
Act.
What action should the nurse take if he or she questions a health
care provider's prescription that they believe is wrong?
......ANSWER........Inform the health care provider. Record that the
health care provider was informed and the health care
provider's response to such information. Inform the nursing
supervisor. Refuse to carry out the prescription.
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Describe the nurse's legal responsibility when asked to perform
a task for which he or she is unprepared. ......ANSWER........Inform
the health care provider or person asking the nurse to perform
the task that he or she is unprepared to carry out the task.
Refuse to perform the task.
Describe nursing care of the restrained client.
......ANSWER........Apply restraints properly. Check restraints
frequently to see that they are not causing injury and record
such monitoring. Remove restraints as soon as possible. Use
restraints as a last resort.
By what authority may RNs delegate nursing care to others?
......ANSWER........State Nurse Practice Act
A UAP may perform care that falls within which components of
the nursing process? ......ANSWER........Implementation
HESI COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW FOR THE NCLEX-RN
EXAMINATION 2025 NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 510 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY
GRADED A+
What types of procedures should be assigned to professional
nurses? ......ANSWER........Sterile or invasive procedures.
Negligence is measured by reasonableness.
List the 4 elements that are necessary to prove negligence.
......ANSWER........Duty.
Failure to protect client again unreasonable risk. Breach of duty.
Failure to perform according to established standards.
Causation. A connection exists between conduct of the nurse and
the resulting damage. Damages. Damage is done to the client,
physical or mental.
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Define an intentional tort and five one example.
......ANSWER........Conduct causing damage to another person in
a willful or intentional way without just cause.
Example Hitting a client out of anger, not in a manner of self
protection.
Voluntary admission ......ANSWER........Client admits self to an
institution for treatment and restrains his or her civil rights. He or
she may leave at any time.
Involuntary admission ......ANSWER........Someone other than client
applies for the client's admission to an institution requires
certification by 1 or 2 health care providers that the person is a
danger to self or others.
List 5 activities a person who is declared incompetent cannot
perform. ......ANSWER........Vote, make contracts or wills, drive a
care, sue or be sued, hold a professional license.
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Name 3 legal requirements of a surgical permit
......ANSWER........Voluntary, informed, and written.
Who may give consent for medical treatment?
......ANSWER........Alert, coherent, or otherwise competent adults,
a parent or legal guardian, a person in loco parentis of minors
or incompetent adults.
What law protects the nurse who provides care or gives aid in
an emergency situation? ......ANSWER........The Good Samaritan
Act.
What action should the nurse take if he or she questions a health
care provider's prescription that they believe is wrong?
......ANSWER........Inform the health care provider. Record that the
health care provider was informed and the health care
provider's response to such information. Inform the nursing
supervisor. Refuse to carry out the prescription.
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Describe the nurse's legal responsibility when asked to perform
a task for which he or she is unprepared. ......ANSWER........Inform
the health care provider or person asking the nurse to perform
the task that he or she is unprepared to carry out the task.
Refuse to perform the task.
Describe nursing care of the restrained client.
......ANSWER........Apply restraints properly. Check restraints
frequently to see that they are not causing injury and record
such monitoring. Remove restraints as soon as possible. Use
restraints as a last resort.
By what authority may RNs delegate nursing care to others?
......ANSWER........State Nurse Practice Act
A UAP may perform care that falls within which components of
the nursing process? ......ANSWER........Implementation
