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HESI Exit Exam 2026–2027 – Next Generation (NGN) Format – 300 Practice Questions with Detailed Answers and Rationales – Exam Preparation MaterialThis document provides a comprehensive HESI Exit Exam preparation resource featuring 300 practice questions in a Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-style format, with detailed answers and rationales. It is designed to help nursing students strengthen clinical judgment, apply nursing concepts to patient-care scenarios, and prepare for exit-level assessments. The material covers major nursing domains including prioritization, delegation, patient safety, pharmacology, fundamentals, medical-surgical nursing, mental health, maternal-newborn care, pediatrics, and clinical judgment. It also incorporates NGN-style question formats and detailed rationales to explain the reasoning behind each answer, helping students identify knowledge gaps and improve test-taking skills. The questions are intended for study and exam preparation and should not be represented as confidential or unreleased live HESI examination questions or as guaranteed “actual” exam questions.

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While assessing a radial artery catheter, the patient complains of numbness and paindi
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stal to the insertion site. What interventions should the care giver implement? -
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to CORRECT ANS:->>>Promptly remove the arterial catheter from the radial artery.
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A patient is admitted with an epidural hematoma that resulted from a skateboarding a
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ccident. To differentiate the vascular source of the intracranial bleeding, which findin
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gshould the caregiver monitor? - CORRECT ANS:-
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>>>Rapid onset of decreased level of consciousness. to to to to to to




When preparing a patient for discharge from the hospital following a cystectomy an
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d a urinary diversion to treat bladder cancer, which instruction is most important for t
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he caregiver to include in the patient's discharge teaching plan? - CORRECT ANS:-
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>>>Report any signsof cloudy urine output. to to to to to to

,After repositioning an immobile patient, the caregiver observes an area of hyperemia.
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Toassess for blanching, what action should the caregiver take? - CORRECT ANS:-
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>>>Apply light pressure over the area. to to to to to




The caregiverenters a patient's room and observes the patient's wrist restraint secu
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red as seen in the picture. What action should the caregivertake? -
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to CORRECT ANS:->>>Reposition therestraint tie onto the bedframe. to to to to to to to




A female patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is chemically par
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alyzed and sedated while she is on as assist-control ventilator using 50% FIO2.
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Which assessment finding warrants to to to




immediate intervention by the nurse? - CORRECT ANS:- to to to to to to to




>>>Diminished left lower lobe sounds to to to to




Rationale: Diminished lobe sounds indicate collapsed alveoli or tension pneumothora
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x,which required
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immediate chest tube insertion to re-inflate the lung.
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The development of atherosclerosis is a process of sequential events. Arrange the pat
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hophysiological events in orders of occurrence. (Place the first event on top and thelast
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to on the bottom) - CORRECT ANS:-
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>>>Arterial endothelium injury causes inflammation Macrophages consume low den
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,sity lipoprotein (LDL), creating foam cells
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Foam cells release growth factors for smooth muscle cells Smo
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oth muscle grows over fatty streaks creating fibrous plaquesVe
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ssel narrowing results in ischemia
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Following a motor vehicle collision, an adult female with a ruptured spleen and a blo
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od pressure of 70/44, had an emergency splenectomy. Twelve hours after the surgery,
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to herurine output is 25 ml/hour for the last two hours. What pathophysiological reason
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o supports the nurse's decision to report this finding to the healthcare provider? -
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to CORRECT ANS:->>>Oliguria signals tubular necrosis related to hypoperfusion to to to to to to to




A nurse- to




manager is preparing the curricula for a class for charge nurses. A staffing formul
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a based on what data ensures quality patient care and is most cost-effective? -
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CORRECT ANS:->>>Skills of staff and patient acuity
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When performing postural drainage on a patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar
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y Disease (COPD), which approach should the caregiveruse? - CORRECT ANS:-
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>>>Explain that thepatient may be placed in five positions to to to to to to to to to




A patient presents in the emergency room with right-
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sided facial asymmetry. The caregiverasks the patient to perform a series of movemen
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, ts that require use of the facial muscles.What symptoms suggest that the patient has m
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ost likely experience a Bell's palsy ratherthan a stroke? - CORRECT ANS:-
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>>>Inability to close the affected eye, raise brow, or smile to to to to to to to to to




The caregiveris teaching a patient how to perform colostomy irrigations. When obser
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ving thepatient's return demonstration, which action indicated that the patient underst
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ood the teaching? - CORRECT ANS:-
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>>>Keeps the irrigating container less than 18 inches above the stoma
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The caregivershould teach the patient to observe which precaution while takingdrone
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darone? - CORRECT ANS:->>>Avoid grapefruits and its juice
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A patient who sustained a head injury following an automobile collision is admitted t
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o thehospital. The caregiverinclude the patient's risk for developing increased intracr
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anial pressure (ICP) in the plan of care. Which signs indicate to the caregiverthat ICP
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has increased? - CORRECT ANS:->>>Increased Glasgow coma scale score.
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Nuchal rigidity and papilledem to to to




a.Confusion and papilledema
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Periorbital ecchymosis. to




Rationale: papilledema is always an indicator of increased ICP, and confusion is usual
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