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HESI RN FUNDAMENTAL EXAM 2023 VERSION
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS AND RATIONALE
/A+ GRADE
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Enalapril maleate A) Checking the client's blood pressure
(Vasotec) is prescribed for
a hospitalized client. Rationale--enalapril maleate is an angiotensin-
Which assessment does converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor used to treat
the nurse perform as a hypertension. One common side effect is postural
priority before hypotension. Therefore the nurse would check the
administering the client's blood pressure immediately before
medication? administering each dose.
A) Checking the client's
blood pressure
B) checking the client's
peripheral pulses
C) checking the most
recent potassium level
D) checking the client's
intake and output record
for the last 24 hours
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A client is scheduled to C) "I need to drink citrate of magnesia the night
undergo an upper before the test and give myself a Fleet enema on the
gastrointestinal (GI) series, morning of the test."
and the nurse provides
instructions to the client Rationale
about the test. Which An upper GI series involves visualization of the
statement by the client esophagus, duodenum, and upper
indicates a need for jejunum by means of the use of a contrast medium. It
further instruction? involves swallowing a contrast
medium (usually barium), which is administered in a
A) "The test will take about flavored milkshake. Films are taken
30 minutes" at intervals during the test, which takes about 30
B) "I need to fast for 8 minutes. No special preparation is
hours before the test" necessary before a GI series, except that NPO status
C) "I need to drink citrate must be maintained for 8 hours
of magnesia the night before the test. After an upper GI series, the client is
before the test and give prescribed a laxative to hasten
myself a Fleet enema on elimination of the barium. Barium that remains in the
the morning of the test." colon may become hard and
D) "I need to take a difficult to expel, leading to fecal impaction.
laxative after the test is
completed, because the
liquid that I'll have to drink
for the test can be
constipating."
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A nurse on the evening B) Ask the answering service to contact the on-call
shift checks a physician's physician
prescriptions and notes
that the dose of a
prescribed medication is
higher than the normal
dose. The nurse calls the
physician's answering
service and is told that the
physician if off for the
night and will be available
the next morning. The
nurse should:
A) call the nursing
supervisor
B) Ask the answering
service to contact the on-
call physician
C) Withhold the
medication until the
physician can be reached
in the morning
D) Administer the
medication but consult the
physician when he
becomes available
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HESI RN FUNDAMENTAL EXAM 2023 VERSION
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS AND RATIONALE
/A+ GRADE
Save
Terms in this set (25)
Enalapril maleate A) Checking the client's blood pressure
(Vasotec) is prescribed for
a hospitalized client. Rationale--enalapril maleate is an angiotensin-
Which assessment does converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor used to treat
the nurse perform as a hypertension. One common side effect is postural
priority before hypotension. Therefore the nurse would check the
administering the client's blood pressure immediately before
medication? administering each dose.
A) Checking the client's
blood pressure
B) checking the client's
peripheral pulses
C) checking the most
recent potassium level
D) checking the client's
intake and output record
for the last 24 hours
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A client is scheduled to C) "I need to drink citrate of magnesia the night
undergo an upper before the test and give myself a Fleet enema on the
gastrointestinal (GI) series, morning of the test."
and the nurse provides
instructions to the client Rationale
about the test. Which An upper GI series involves visualization of the
statement by the client esophagus, duodenum, and upper
indicates a need for jejunum by means of the use of a contrast medium. It
further instruction? involves swallowing a contrast
medium (usually barium), which is administered in a
A) "The test will take about flavored milkshake. Films are taken
30 minutes" at intervals during the test, which takes about 30
B) "I need to fast for 8 minutes. No special preparation is
hours before the test" necessary before a GI series, except that NPO status
C) "I need to drink citrate must be maintained for 8 hours
of magnesia the night before the test. After an upper GI series, the client is
before the test and give prescribed a laxative to hasten
myself a Fleet enema on elimination of the barium. Barium that remains in the
the morning of the test." colon may become hard and
D) "I need to take a difficult to expel, leading to fecal impaction.
laxative after the test is
completed, because the
liquid that I'll have to drink
for the test can be
constipating."
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A nurse on the evening B) Ask the answering service to contact the on-call
shift checks a physician's physician
prescriptions and notes
that the dose of a
prescribed medication is
higher than the normal
dose. The nurse calls the
physician's answering
service and is told that the
physician if off for the
night and will be available
the next morning. The
nurse should:
A) call the nursing
supervisor
B) Ask the answering
service to contact the on-
call physician
C) Withhold the
medication until the
physician can be reached
in the morning
D) Administer the
medication but consult the
physician when he
becomes available
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