HESI EXIT ACTUAL EXAM |WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES|PRE-
EVALUATED A+
1. A nurse is evaluating care of an immobilized patient. Which action will the
nurse take?
a. Focus on whether the interdisciplinary team is satisfied with the care.
Compare the patient’s actual outcomes with the outcomes in the care
b. plan.
Involve primarily the patient’s family and health care team to
c. determine goal achievement.
Use objective data solely in determining whether interventions have
d. been successful.
ANS: B
From your perspective as the nurse, you are to evaluate outcomes and
response to nursing care and compare the patient’s actual outcomes with the
outcomes selected during planning. Ask if the patient’s expectations
(subjective data) of care are being met, and use objective data to determine
the success of interventions. Just as it was important to include the patient
during the assessment and planning phase of the care plan, it is essential to
have the patient’s evaluation of the plan of care, not just the patient’s family
,and health care team.
2. A nurse is supervising the logrolling of a patient. To which patient is the
nurse most likely providing care?
a. A patient with neck surgery
b. A patient with hypostatic pneumonia
c. A patient with a total knee replacement
d. A patient with a Stage IV pressure ulcer
ANS: A
A nurse supervises and aids personnel when there is a health care provider’s order to logroll a patient.
Patients who have suffered from spinal cord injury or
are recovering from neck, back, or spinal surgery often need to keep the spinal
column in straight alignment to prevent further injury. Hypostatic pneumonia,
total knee replacement, and Stage IV ulcers do not have to be logrolled.
3. The nurse is providing teaching to an immobilized patient with
impaired skin integrity about diet. Which diet will the nurse recommend?
a. High protein, high calorie
b. High carbohydrate, low fat
c. High vitamin A, high vitamin E
d. Fluid restricted, bland
ANS: A
Because the body needs protein to repair injured tissue and rebuild depleted
protein stores, give the immobilized patient a high-protein, high-calorie diet.
A high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet is not beneficial for an immobilized patient.
Vitamins B and C are needed rather than A and E. Fluid restriction can be
detrimental to the immobilized patient; this can lead to dehydration. A bland
diet is not necessary for immobilized patients.
4. The nurse is caring for a patient who has had a stroke causing total
paralysis of the right side. To help maintain joint function and minimize
the disability from contractures, passive ROM will be initiated. When
, should the nurse begin this therapy?
a. After the acute phase of the disease has passed
b. As soon as the ability to move is lost
c. Once the patient enters the rehab unit
d. When the patient requests it
ANS: B
Passive ROM exercises should begin as soon as the patient’s ability to move
the extremity or joint is lost. The nurse should not wait for the acute phase to
end. It may be some time before the patient enters the rehab unit or the patient
requests it, and contractures could form by then.
5. The nurse is admitting a patient who has been diagnosed as having had
a stroke. The health care provider writes orders for “ROM as needed.”
What should the nurse do next?
a. Restrict patient’s mobility as much as possible.
b. Realize the patient is unable to move extremities.
c. Move all the patient’s extremities.
d. Further assess the patient.
ANS: D
Further assessment of the patient is needed to determine what the patient is
able to perform. Some patients are able to move some joints actively, whereas
the nurse passively moves others. With a weak patient, the nurse may have to
support an extremity while the patient performs the movement. In general,
exercises need to be as active as health and mobility allow.
6. A nurse is assessing pressure points in a patient placed in the Sims’
position. Which areas will the nurse observe?
a. Chin, elbow, hips
b. Ileum, clavicle, knees
c. Shoulder, anterior iliac spine, ankles
d. Occipital region of the head, coccyx, heels
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES|PRE-
EVALUATED A+
1. A nurse is evaluating care of an immobilized patient. Which action will the
nurse take?
a. Focus on whether the interdisciplinary team is satisfied with the care.
Compare the patient’s actual outcomes with the outcomes in the care
b. plan.
Involve primarily the patient’s family and health care team to
c. determine goal achievement.
Use objective data solely in determining whether interventions have
d. been successful.
ANS: B
From your perspective as the nurse, you are to evaluate outcomes and
response to nursing care and compare the patient’s actual outcomes with the
outcomes selected during planning. Ask if the patient’s expectations
(subjective data) of care are being met, and use objective data to determine
the success of interventions. Just as it was important to include the patient
during the assessment and planning phase of the care plan, it is essential to
have the patient’s evaluation of the plan of care, not just the patient’s family
,and health care team.
2. A nurse is supervising the logrolling of a patient. To which patient is the
nurse most likely providing care?
a. A patient with neck surgery
b. A patient with hypostatic pneumonia
c. A patient with a total knee replacement
d. A patient with a Stage IV pressure ulcer
ANS: A
A nurse supervises and aids personnel when there is a health care provider’s order to logroll a patient.
Patients who have suffered from spinal cord injury or
are recovering from neck, back, or spinal surgery often need to keep the spinal
column in straight alignment to prevent further injury. Hypostatic pneumonia,
total knee replacement, and Stage IV ulcers do not have to be logrolled.
3. The nurse is providing teaching to an immobilized patient with
impaired skin integrity about diet. Which diet will the nurse recommend?
a. High protein, high calorie
b. High carbohydrate, low fat
c. High vitamin A, high vitamin E
d. Fluid restricted, bland
ANS: A
Because the body needs protein to repair injured tissue and rebuild depleted
protein stores, give the immobilized patient a high-protein, high-calorie diet.
A high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet is not beneficial for an immobilized patient.
Vitamins B and C are needed rather than A and E. Fluid restriction can be
detrimental to the immobilized patient; this can lead to dehydration. A bland
diet is not necessary for immobilized patients.
4. The nurse is caring for a patient who has had a stroke causing total
paralysis of the right side. To help maintain joint function and minimize
the disability from contractures, passive ROM will be initiated. When
, should the nurse begin this therapy?
a. After the acute phase of the disease has passed
b. As soon as the ability to move is lost
c. Once the patient enters the rehab unit
d. When the patient requests it
ANS: B
Passive ROM exercises should begin as soon as the patient’s ability to move
the extremity or joint is lost. The nurse should not wait for the acute phase to
end. It may be some time before the patient enters the rehab unit or the patient
requests it, and contractures could form by then.
5. The nurse is admitting a patient who has been diagnosed as having had
a stroke. The health care provider writes orders for “ROM as needed.”
What should the nurse do next?
a. Restrict patient’s mobility as much as possible.
b. Realize the patient is unable to move extremities.
c. Move all the patient’s extremities.
d. Further assess the patient.
ANS: D
Further assessment of the patient is needed to determine what the patient is
able to perform. Some patients are able to move some joints actively, whereas
the nurse passively moves others. With a weak patient, the nurse may have to
support an extremity while the patient performs the movement. In general,
exercises need to be as active as health and mobility allow.
6. A nurse is assessing pressure points in a patient placed in the Sims’
position. Which areas will the nurse observe?
a. Chin, elbow, hips
b. Ileum, clavicle, knees
c. Shoulder, anterior iliac spine, ankles
d. Occipital region of the head, coccyx, heels
