HESI Fundamentals Exam with Verified
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What does ABC'SD stand for? - ✔✔Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Safety, Discomfort (Pain)
What does ADPIE stand for? - ✔✔Assess, Diagnose, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
Autonomy - ✔✔independence; self-government
Beneficence - ✔✔doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action
Nonmalficence - ✔✔do no harm
Justice - ✔✔respecting the rights of others and giving them what is rightfully theirs (fairness)
Fidelity - ✔✔faithfulness; loyalty
Advocacy - ✔✔taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to
support a health-related belief
Responsibility - ✔✔the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having
control over someone
Accountability - ✔✔willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
Confidentiality - ✔✔the act of holding information in confidence, not to be released to
unauthorized individuals
,Advance Directives - ✔✔legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care they
wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves
Informed Consent - ✔✔giving potential participants enough information about a study to
enable them to choose whether they wish to participate
Who is required to obtain the informed consent form? - ✔✔physician, but the nurse is the last
person to ensure that the informed consent was obtained
What is HIPPA? What does it do? - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act, which
protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information.
Difference between battery and assault. - ✔✔that assault requires no physical contact; an
assault is complete before the offender touches the victim, battery is when the offender
touches the victim
Difference between negligence and malpractice. - ✔✔negligence: harm that results because a
person did not act reasonably, implies that a person acted carelessly
malpractice: professional negligence, holds professionals to a higher standard of accountability
Communication - Listening - ✔✔know when to stay silent
Therapeutic Communication: What not to do? - ✔✔Do not ask why questions, give personal
opinions, give false reassurance, make judgements, interrupt.
What type of questions should you ask in therapeutic communication? - ✔✔open-ended, do
NOT ask yes or no questions
, RN's can only perform EAT and cannot delegate it to CNAs, what does that stand for? -
✔✔Evaluate, Assess, Teach
Healthcare Associated Infections - ✔✔an infection acquired by any means of healthcare
delivery in any setting including home health, ambulatory services, and long-term facilities
Signs and Symptoms of Localized Infections - ✔✔redness, swollen, warm to the touch, and
painful, loss of sensation
Signs and Symptoms of Systemic Infections - ✔✔fever, body aches, chills, nausea, vomiting,
weakness, headache, mental confusion, drop in blood pressure
Lab Tests Related to Infectious Process - ✔✔WBC, ESR, C&S (culture and sensitivity)
Standard Precautions - ✔✔CDC precautions used in the care of all patients regardless of their
diagnosis or possible infection status; this category combines universal and body substance
precautions, you should wear just gloves.
What do you wear for PPE for Airborne Precautions? - ✔✔N95 mask, gown, gloves
What do you wear for PPE for Droplet Precautions? - ✔✔Surgical Mask
What do you wear for PPE for Contact Precautions? - ✔✔Gloves, Gown, and use dedicated or
disposable equipment.
Medical Asepsis - ✔✔clean technique; involves procedures and practices that reduce the
number and transfer of pathogens
Answers
What does ABC'SD stand for? - ✔✔Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Safety, Discomfort (Pain)
What does ADPIE stand for? - ✔✔Assess, Diagnose, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
Autonomy - ✔✔independence; self-government
Beneficence - ✔✔doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action
Nonmalficence - ✔✔do no harm
Justice - ✔✔respecting the rights of others and giving them what is rightfully theirs (fairness)
Fidelity - ✔✔faithfulness; loyalty
Advocacy - ✔✔taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to
support a health-related belief
Responsibility - ✔✔the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having
control over someone
Accountability - ✔✔willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
Confidentiality - ✔✔the act of holding information in confidence, not to be released to
unauthorized individuals
,Advance Directives - ✔✔legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care they
wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves
Informed Consent - ✔✔giving potential participants enough information about a study to
enable them to choose whether they wish to participate
Who is required to obtain the informed consent form? - ✔✔physician, but the nurse is the last
person to ensure that the informed consent was obtained
What is HIPPA? What does it do? - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act, which
protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information.
Difference between battery and assault. - ✔✔that assault requires no physical contact; an
assault is complete before the offender touches the victim, battery is when the offender
touches the victim
Difference between negligence and malpractice. - ✔✔negligence: harm that results because a
person did not act reasonably, implies that a person acted carelessly
malpractice: professional negligence, holds professionals to a higher standard of accountability
Communication - Listening - ✔✔know when to stay silent
Therapeutic Communication: What not to do? - ✔✔Do not ask why questions, give personal
opinions, give false reassurance, make judgements, interrupt.
What type of questions should you ask in therapeutic communication? - ✔✔open-ended, do
NOT ask yes or no questions
, RN's can only perform EAT and cannot delegate it to CNAs, what does that stand for? -
✔✔Evaluate, Assess, Teach
Healthcare Associated Infections - ✔✔an infection acquired by any means of healthcare
delivery in any setting including home health, ambulatory services, and long-term facilities
Signs and Symptoms of Localized Infections - ✔✔redness, swollen, warm to the touch, and
painful, loss of sensation
Signs and Symptoms of Systemic Infections - ✔✔fever, body aches, chills, nausea, vomiting,
weakness, headache, mental confusion, drop in blood pressure
Lab Tests Related to Infectious Process - ✔✔WBC, ESR, C&S (culture and sensitivity)
Standard Precautions - ✔✔CDC precautions used in the care of all patients regardless of their
diagnosis or possible infection status; this category combines universal and body substance
precautions, you should wear just gloves.
What do you wear for PPE for Airborne Precautions? - ✔✔N95 mask, gown, gloves
What do you wear for PPE for Droplet Precautions? - ✔✔Surgical Mask
What do you wear for PPE for Contact Precautions? - ✔✔Gloves, Gown, and use dedicated or
disposable equipment.
Medical Asepsis - ✔✔clean technique; involves procedures and practices that reduce the
number and transfer of pathogens
