HESI Nutrition Exam Questions and Answers
with Detailed Rationales | Verified | Graded
A+
• The RN suspects that a female client is altering her own diabetic
journals. Which lab test should the RN review? -✓✓Hemoglobin A1C
• The RN is assessing the client regarding the need to increase vitamin
B12. Which foods should the RN instruct the client to include? -
✓✓Cheese, eggs, fish
• The home health RN is caring for a client with a stage III pressure
ulcer. The RN recognizes which food group that contains zinc should be
added to the client's diet -✓✓Meats and shellfish
• The RN receives four new admissions in an assisted living community.
Which client should the RN assess for a higher caloric diet? -✓✓A client
with bacterial pneumonia
• Orthodox Jewish client can have what? -✓✓lamb chops with mint jelly
• Client's knowledge of low-sodium menu selections -✓✓White
rice/steamed veggies and cottage cheese/sliced tomatoes
• Lactose intolerant client needs foods enriched with calcium and vit d -
✓✓Fortified soy products
• Stress incontinence dietary change -✓✓avoid alcohol and caffeine
• Instructions for client experiencing dumping syndrome -✓✓Fluids
should be limited to eight oz with meals
,• Recommended food for postoperative colectomy and colostomy -
✓✓chicken noodle soup
• reduce odor in colostomy -✓✓eat foods with yogurt
drunk buttermilk
eat parsley
• vitamin deficiency increases the susceptibility of bleeding -✓✓Vit K
• continuous feeding through a NG tube - position to prevent aspiration?
-✓✓Semi-Fowler's
• What should the RN include in chinese woman's diet -✓✓vegetables
• Foods for client who isn't eating because of mouth ulcers -✓✓poached
or scrambled eggs
• Meal of pt with RUQ pain should be assessed for -✓✓saturated fat
content
• How do you take medicine if youre NPO -✓✓take with water that is
not flavored
• acute cholectisis dietary recommedations -✓✓baked fish and tomatoes
with lettuce
• what instructions should the nurse include for psylium -✓✓take with
240mL and follow with a second glass
• Pt receiving TPN should be monitored for what metabolic chance -
✓✓hyperglycemia
, • seconday cirrhosis instruction do include in dietary teaching plan -
✓✓restricted sodium intake
• instructions for diet info with simple goiter - what to eliminate? -
✓✓turnips
• Vit k Deficiency nurse intervention -✓✓monitor for signs of
hematuria, melena, ecchymosis
• What should the RN teach about recommending client replace
saturated fats and healthier fats -✓✓lowers the amount of low density
lipoprotein in the blood
• value of a protein supplement after surgery -✓✓add'l protein promotes
tissue healing post-0p
• Pernicious anmia assoc with what vitamin deficiency? -✓✓B12
• What illness from bad can of beans -✓✓clostridium botulinum
• Likelihood of aging and creating a byproduct that is not health -✓✓jar
of peanut butter
• What statement indicates new mom needs more instruction for
breastfeeding -✓✓drink a glass of wine while breastfeeding to help milk
let down
• PKU should eliminate -✓✓chicken and fish
• low residue diet client should avoid -✓✓hard salami
• stool guaiac test - what do you not eat 3 days before -✓✓raw broccoli
with Detailed Rationales | Verified | Graded
A+
• The RN suspects that a female client is altering her own diabetic
journals. Which lab test should the RN review? -✓✓Hemoglobin A1C
• The RN is assessing the client regarding the need to increase vitamin
B12. Which foods should the RN instruct the client to include? -
✓✓Cheese, eggs, fish
• The home health RN is caring for a client with a stage III pressure
ulcer. The RN recognizes which food group that contains zinc should be
added to the client's diet -✓✓Meats and shellfish
• The RN receives four new admissions in an assisted living community.
Which client should the RN assess for a higher caloric diet? -✓✓A client
with bacterial pneumonia
• Orthodox Jewish client can have what? -✓✓lamb chops with mint jelly
• Client's knowledge of low-sodium menu selections -✓✓White
rice/steamed veggies and cottage cheese/sliced tomatoes
• Lactose intolerant client needs foods enriched with calcium and vit d -
✓✓Fortified soy products
• Stress incontinence dietary change -✓✓avoid alcohol and caffeine
• Instructions for client experiencing dumping syndrome -✓✓Fluids
should be limited to eight oz with meals
,• Recommended food for postoperative colectomy and colostomy -
✓✓chicken noodle soup
• reduce odor in colostomy -✓✓eat foods with yogurt
drunk buttermilk
eat parsley
• vitamin deficiency increases the susceptibility of bleeding -✓✓Vit K
• continuous feeding through a NG tube - position to prevent aspiration?
-✓✓Semi-Fowler's
• What should the RN include in chinese woman's diet -✓✓vegetables
• Foods for client who isn't eating because of mouth ulcers -✓✓poached
or scrambled eggs
• Meal of pt with RUQ pain should be assessed for -✓✓saturated fat
content
• How do you take medicine if youre NPO -✓✓take with water that is
not flavored
• acute cholectisis dietary recommedations -✓✓baked fish and tomatoes
with lettuce
• what instructions should the nurse include for psylium -✓✓take with
240mL and follow with a second glass
• Pt receiving TPN should be monitored for what metabolic chance -
✓✓hyperglycemia
, • seconday cirrhosis instruction do include in dietary teaching plan -
✓✓restricted sodium intake
• instructions for diet info with simple goiter - what to eliminate? -
✓✓turnips
• Vit k Deficiency nurse intervention -✓✓monitor for signs of
hematuria, melena, ecchymosis
• What should the RN teach about recommending client replace
saturated fats and healthier fats -✓✓lowers the amount of low density
lipoprotein in the blood
• value of a protein supplement after surgery -✓✓add'l protein promotes
tissue healing post-0p
• Pernicious anmia assoc with what vitamin deficiency? -✓✓B12
• What illness from bad can of beans -✓✓clostridium botulinum
• Likelihood of aging and creating a byproduct that is not health -✓✓jar
of peanut butter
• What statement indicates new mom needs more instruction for
breastfeeding -✓✓drink a glass of wine while breastfeeding to help milk
let down
• PKU should eliminate -✓✓chicken and fish
• low residue diet client should avoid -✓✓hard salami
• stool guaiac test - what do you not eat 3 days before -✓✓raw broccoli
