HESI Community Health Exam
HESI Community Health Exam Study Guide
Questions and Answers Graded A 2024-2025
1. During a two-week postoperative follow-up home visit, a female client who had
gastric bypass surgery exhibits abdominal tenderness, shoulder pain, and describes
feelings of malaise. Her vital signs are: temperature 101.8°F, blood pressure 100/50,
heart rate 104 beats/minute, and respirations 18 breaths/minute. Which action should
the nurse take?
a. Determine the client's current oxygen saturation rate.
b. Instruct the client to drive to the hospital for admission
c. Recheck the client's vital signs in 30 minutes
d. Have the client transported via ambulance to the hospital -Correct Answer ✔d. Have
the client transported via ambulance to the hospital
1. An older man has become increasingly forgetful, frequently eats large quantities of
food from refrigerator, and cannot remember when he takes his medications. He has
limited mobility to weight-related osteoarthritis in both knees. When assisting the client's
wife with a plan care for the home, which interventions should the nurse suggest?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Request a referral for motorized wheelchair to assist with mobility.
b. Keep a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that are easily accessible.
c. Put medications into a container that organized the pills by the day and time.
d. Encourage participation in televised exercise classes to help strengthen muscles. -
Correct Answer ✔b. Keep a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that are easily
accessible.
c. Put medications into a container that organized the pills by the day and time.
d. Encourage participation in televised exercise classes to help strengthen muscles.
The school nurse is assessing heights, weights, and body mass indexed (BMI) of the
students who are entering high school. Because a majority of the students are found to
be overweight, the nurse plans to develop a program that addresses obesity in this age
population. Before initiating this program, what additional information is most important
for the nurse to obtain?
a. The history of obesity education in the community
b. The level of parental concern regarding childhood obesity
c. The demographic data for the student population
An activity report from the physical education department -Correct Answer ✔a. The
history of obesity education in the community
The epidemiological triad can be used to frame strategies for the prevention of farm
machinery injuries. Which action should the nurse take to focus on the agent?
a. Teach farm workers not to smoke around farm equipment
b. Work with legislators to mandate safe tractor design
c. Translate written vehicle instructions into picture format
HESI Community Health Exam
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d. Provide rehabilitation services to injured farm hands -Correct Answer ✔Work with
legislators to mandate safe tractor design
1. The public health nurse is creating a plan to increase state funding for a local health
clinic. Which strategy is likely to be most effective in obtaining funding for the clinic?
a. Run the health clinic economically and advertise the services the clinic provides
b. Organize concerned citizens to write letters and telephone state representatives
c. Described to the media the valuable services provided by the community clinic
d. Engage a professional lobbyist to persuade Congress of the local clinic's value -
Correct Answer ✔d. Engage a professional lobbyist to persuade Congress of the local
clinic's value
The nurse is documenting the medical history of a young adult male client who was
recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). He smokes 2 packs of
cigarettes daily and his father died of a heart attack at the age of 45. Which annual
screening is most important for the nurse include?
a. Peripheral neuropathy
b. Renal insufficiency
c. Retinography
d. Hyperlipidemia -Correct Answer ✔d. Hyperlipidemia
The nurse provides teaching to a group of evacuees in a mass casualty center after a
natural flooding disaster. Which information should the nurse including in the teaching
plan? (Select all that apply.)
a. Wash all fruits and vegetables thoroughly in running tap water.
b. Identify all sexual contacts since the evacuation process
c. Take all doses of prophylactic prescriptions for diarrhea
d. Clean hands using soap, clean water, or waterless antibacterial solutions
E. Drink only boiled water or bottled oral rehydration solutions -Correct Answer ✔c.
Take all doses of prophylactic prescriptions for diarrhea
d. Clean hands using soap, clean water, or waterless antibacterial solutions
E. Drink only boiled water or bottled oral rehydration solutions
A nurse is planning a nutrition class for a group of senior citizens at a community center
and wants to emphasize the amount and types of fat in some foods versus others. What
is the best teaching method for the nurse to use?
a. Display posters with foods and tell seniors about fat content
b. Determine foods most often eaten by this group and discuss the nutritional panel of
each product
c. Show a movie about cooking with foods that are low in fat but delicious
d. Ask each senior to bring a food for others to taste, then estimate the fat contained in
these foods -Correct Answer ✔b. Determine foods most often eaten by this group and
discuss the nutritional panel of each product
An adult male who has diabetes is laid off from his job of 15 years where he had health
care benefits. By law, he is provided with Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
HESI Community Health Exam
HESI Community Health Exam Study Guide
Questions and Answers Graded A 2024-2025
1. During a two-week postoperative follow-up home visit, a female client who had
gastric bypass surgery exhibits abdominal tenderness, shoulder pain, and describes
feelings of malaise. Her vital signs are: temperature 101.8°F, blood pressure 100/50,
heart rate 104 beats/minute, and respirations 18 breaths/minute. Which action should
the nurse take?
a. Determine the client's current oxygen saturation rate.
b. Instruct the client to drive to the hospital for admission
c. Recheck the client's vital signs in 30 minutes
d. Have the client transported via ambulance to the hospital -Correct Answer ✔d. Have
the client transported via ambulance to the hospital
1. An older man has become increasingly forgetful, frequently eats large quantities of
food from refrigerator, and cannot remember when he takes his medications. He has
limited mobility to weight-related osteoarthritis in both knees. When assisting the client's
wife with a plan care for the home, which interventions should the nurse suggest?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Request a referral for motorized wheelchair to assist with mobility.
b. Keep a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that are easily accessible.
c. Put medications into a container that organized the pills by the day and time.
d. Encourage participation in televised exercise classes to help strengthen muscles. -
Correct Answer ✔b. Keep a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that are easily
accessible.
c. Put medications into a container that organized the pills by the day and time.
d. Encourage participation in televised exercise classes to help strengthen muscles.
The school nurse is assessing heights, weights, and body mass indexed (BMI) of the
students who are entering high school. Because a majority of the students are found to
be overweight, the nurse plans to develop a program that addresses obesity in this age
population. Before initiating this program, what additional information is most important
for the nurse to obtain?
a. The history of obesity education in the community
b. The level of parental concern regarding childhood obesity
c. The demographic data for the student population
An activity report from the physical education department -Correct Answer ✔a. The
history of obesity education in the community
The epidemiological triad can be used to frame strategies for the prevention of farm
machinery injuries. Which action should the nurse take to focus on the agent?
a. Teach farm workers not to smoke around farm equipment
b. Work with legislators to mandate safe tractor design
c. Translate written vehicle instructions into picture format
HESI Community Health Exam
, HESI Community Health Exam
d. Provide rehabilitation services to injured farm hands -Correct Answer ✔Work with
legislators to mandate safe tractor design
1. The public health nurse is creating a plan to increase state funding for a local health
clinic. Which strategy is likely to be most effective in obtaining funding for the clinic?
a. Run the health clinic economically and advertise the services the clinic provides
b. Organize concerned citizens to write letters and telephone state representatives
c. Described to the media the valuable services provided by the community clinic
d. Engage a professional lobbyist to persuade Congress of the local clinic's value -
Correct Answer ✔d. Engage a professional lobbyist to persuade Congress of the local
clinic's value
The nurse is documenting the medical history of a young adult male client who was
recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). He smokes 2 packs of
cigarettes daily and his father died of a heart attack at the age of 45. Which annual
screening is most important for the nurse include?
a. Peripheral neuropathy
b. Renal insufficiency
c. Retinography
d. Hyperlipidemia -Correct Answer ✔d. Hyperlipidemia
The nurse provides teaching to a group of evacuees in a mass casualty center after a
natural flooding disaster. Which information should the nurse including in the teaching
plan? (Select all that apply.)
a. Wash all fruits and vegetables thoroughly in running tap water.
b. Identify all sexual contacts since the evacuation process
c. Take all doses of prophylactic prescriptions for diarrhea
d. Clean hands using soap, clean water, or waterless antibacterial solutions
E. Drink only boiled water or bottled oral rehydration solutions -Correct Answer ✔c.
Take all doses of prophylactic prescriptions for diarrhea
d. Clean hands using soap, clean water, or waterless antibacterial solutions
E. Drink only boiled water or bottled oral rehydration solutions
A nurse is planning a nutrition class for a group of senior citizens at a community center
and wants to emphasize the amount and types of fat in some foods versus others. What
is the best teaching method for the nurse to use?
a. Display posters with foods and tell seniors about fat content
b. Determine foods most often eaten by this group and discuss the nutritional panel of
each product
c. Show a movie about cooking with foods that are low in fat but delicious
d. Ask each senior to bring a food for others to taste, then estimate the fat contained in
these foods -Correct Answer ✔b. Determine foods most often eaten by this group and
discuss the nutritional panel of each product
An adult male who has diabetes is laid off from his job of 15 years where he had health
care benefits. By law, he is provided with Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
HESI Community Health Exam
