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NSG-322 HESI EXAM PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
What nursing assessment is the priority focus for a client with major depression? -
correct-answer - Suicidal ideation.
During a one-to-one interaction, a male client describes the sadness he
experienced when his mother died. Suddenly, the nurse begins to think about her
grandmother's death. As a result, the nurse asked the client to describe his
thoughts when he learned of his own mother's illness. What is the nurse doing? -
correct-answer - Self-Awareness.
A nurse is teaching about women's health with a female client who is in a
homosexual relationship. Which topic is the most important for the nurse to
address? - correct-answer - Domestic violence interventions.
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A female client presents to the emergency center with confusion, emotional
numbness, and expresses to the nurse a feeling of disbelief that she was raped.
The nurse determines the client is in the acute phase of rape-trauma syndrome.
What action should the nurse implement first? - correct-answer - Explain the rape
protocol to the client.
The daughter of a female client with stage-1 Alzheimer's disease (AD) asks the
nurse what changes she should expect her mother to demonstrate in this stage.
What finding should the nurse tell the daughter is common? - correct-answer -
Inability to recognize one's location.
An adolescent female client is admitted to the Emergency Department because
she reports being raped. When the male unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)
enters the room to obtain her vital signs, she begins screaming for her mother
and curls up in the corner of the room. What action should the nurse implement?
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- correct-answer - Reassign an all-female healthcare team to the client until her
fear subsides
An adolescent who attempted suicide with a drug overdose arrives in the
emergency department with an empty 30-tablet bottle of acetaminophen
(Tylenol). Which action should the nurse implement? - correct-answer -
Administer acetylcysteine (Mucocyst).
A client who abuses alcohol says to the nurse, "I am glad I went in for treatment.
Now my problems with alcohol are all behind me." Which response is best for the
nurse to provide? - correct-answer - Tell me more about what you mean when
you say that your problems with alcohol are now behind you
While assessing an older male client, a nurse working in the outpatient clinic
notices bruises on the client's chest. The client admits that his daughter, who is
his caregiver, becomes frustrated and sometimes hits him. What is the priority
NSG-322 HESI EXAM PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
What nursing assessment is the priority focus for a client with major depression? -
correct-answer - Suicidal ideation.
During a one-to-one interaction, a male client describes the sadness he
experienced when his mother died. Suddenly, the nurse begins to think about her
grandmother's death. As a result, the nurse asked the client to describe his
thoughts when he learned of his own mother's illness. What is the nurse doing? -
correct-answer - Self-Awareness.
A nurse is teaching about women's health with a female client who is in a
homosexual relationship. Which topic is the most important for the nurse to
address? - correct-answer - Domestic violence interventions.
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A female client presents to the emergency center with confusion, emotional
numbness, and expresses to the nurse a feeling of disbelief that she was raped.
The nurse determines the client is in the acute phase of rape-trauma syndrome.
What action should the nurse implement first? - correct-answer - Explain the rape
protocol to the client.
The daughter of a female client with stage-1 Alzheimer's disease (AD) asks the
nurse what changes she should expect her mother to demonstrate in this stage.
What finding should the nurse tell the daughter is common? - correct-answer -
Inability to recognize one's location.
An adolescent female client is admitted to the Emergency Department because
she reports being raped. When the male unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)
enters the room to obtain her vital signs, she begins screaming for her mother
and curls up in the corner of the room. What action should the nurse implement?
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- correct-answer - Reassign an all-female healthcare team to the client until her
fear subsides
An adolescent who attempted suicide with a drug overdose arrives in the
emergency department with an empty 30-tablet bottle of acetaminophen
(Tylenol). Which action should the nurse implement? - correct-answer -
Administer acetylcysteine (Mucocyst).
A client who abuses alcohol says to the nurse, "I am glad I went in for treatment.
Now my problems with alcohol are all behind me." Which response is best for the
nurse to provide? - correct-answer - Tell me more about what you mean when
you say that your problems with alcohol are now behind you
While assessing an older male client, a nurse working in the outpatient clinic
notices bruises on the client's chest. The client admits that his daughter, who is
his caregiver, becomes frustrated and sometimes hits him. What is the priority
