2023-2024 HESI A2 EXAM
TEST BANK
NURSING ADMISSION ENTRANCE EXAM
TWO SETS OF PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS FOR
HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS A2 ADMISSION EXAMS.
,2023-2024 HESI A2 EXAM TEST BANK NURSING ADMISSION ENTRANCE EXAM | ANSWERS | PREPARATION TIPS
CONTENTS
PRACTICE QUESTIONS SET 1
Section I – Reading Comprehension
Questions: 45
Time: 45 Minutes
Section II – Mathematics
Questions: 50
Time: 60 Minutes
Section III – Part 1 - English Grammar (optional)
Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section III - Part II – Vocabulary
Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section IV – Part I – Science (optional)
Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
Section IV – Part II – Anatomy & Physiology (optional)
Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
NOTE: The Science, Anatomy and Physiology and English sections
are optional. Check with your school for exam details.
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PRACTICE QUESTIONS SET 2
Section I – Reading Comprehension
Questions: 45
Time: 45 Minutes
Section II – Mathematics
Questions: 50
Time: 60 Minutes
Section III – Part 1 - English Grammar (optional)
Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section III - Part II – Vocabulary
Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section IV – Part I – Science (optional)
Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
Section IV – Part II – Anatomy & Physiology (optional)
Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
NOTE: The Science, Anatomy and Physiology and English sections
are optional. Check with your school for exam details.
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SECTION I - READING COMPREHENSION.
Directions: The following questions are based on a number of reading passages.
Each passage is followed by a series of questions. Read each passage carefully,
and then answer the questions based on it. You may reread the passage as often
as you wish. When you have finished answering the questions based on one
passage, go right on to the next passage. Choose the best answer based on the
information given and implied.
Questions 1 – 4 refer to the following passage.
Passage 1 – Infectious Disease
An infectious disease is a clinically evident illness resulting from the presence of
pathogenic agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multi-cellular
parasites, and unusual protein known as prions. Infectious pathologies are also
called communicable diseases or transmissible diseases, due to their potential of
transmission from one person or species to another by a replicating agent (as
opposed to a toxin).
Transmission of an infectious disease can occur in many different ways. Physical
contact, liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, and airborne inhalation can
all transmit infecting agents.
Transmissible diseases that occur through contact with an ill person, or objects
touched by them, are especially infective, and are sometimes referred to as
contagious diseases. Communicable diseases that require a more specialized
route of infection, such as through blood or needle transmission, or sexual
transmission, are usually not regarded as contagious.
The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and
multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative
ease with which the disease is transmitted. An infection however, is not
synonymous with an infectious disease, as an infection may not cause important
clinical symptoms. 1
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this passage?
a. Sickness from a toxin can be easily transmitted from one person to another.
b. Sickness from an infectious disease can be easily transmitted from one person
to another.
c. Few sicknesses are transmitted from one person to another.
d. Infectious diseases are easily treated.
2. What are two other names for infections’ pathologies?
a. Communicable diseases or transmissible diseases
b. Communicable diseases or terminal diseases