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HESI COMPREHENSIVE EXIT EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+|
||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
The nurse is about to assess a 6 month-old child with nonorganic
failure-to thrive (NOFTT). Upon entering the room, the nurse
would expect the baby to be
A) Irritable and "colicky" with no attempts to pull to standing
B) Alert, laughing and playing with a rattle, sitting with support
C)Skin color dusky with poor skin turgor over abdomen
D) Pale, thin arms and legs, uninterested in surroundings -
ANSWER-D: Pale, thin arms and legs, uninterested in
surroundings
As the nurse is speaking with a group of teens which of these side
effects of chemotherapy for cancer would the nurse expect this
group to be more interested in during the discussion?
A) Mouth sores
B) Fatigue
C) Diarrhea
D) Hair loss - ANSWER-D: Hair loss
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While caring for a client who was admitted with myocardial
infarction (MI) 2 days ago, the nurse notes today's temperature is
101.1 degrees Fahrenheit (38.5 degrees Celsius). The
appropriate
nursing intervention is to
A) Call the health care provider immediately
B) Administer acetaminophen as ordered as this is normal at this
time
C) Send blood, urine and sputum for culture
D) Increase the client's fluid intake - ANSWER-B: Administer
acetaminophen as ordered as this is normal at this time
A client is admitted for first and second degree burns on the face,
neck, anterior chest and hands. The nurse's priority should be
A) Cover the areas with dry sterile dressings
B) Assess for dyspnea or stridor
C) Initiate intravenous therapy
D) Administer pain medication - ANSWER-B: Assess for dyspnea
or stridor
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Which of these clients who call the community health clinic would
the nurse ask to come in that day to be seen by the health care
provider?
A) I started my period and now my urine has turned bright red.
B) I am an diabetic and today I have been going to the bathroom
every hour.
C) I was started on medicine yesterday for a urine infection. Now
my lower belly hurts when I go to the bathroom.
D) I went to the bathroom and my urine looked very red and it
didn't hurt when I went. - ANSWER-D: I went to the bathroom and
my urine looked very red and it didn't hurt when I went.
A middle aged woman talks to the nurse in the health care
provider's office about uterine fibroids also called leiomyomas or
myomas. What statement by the woman indicates more education
is needed?
A) I am one out of every 4 women that get fibroids, and of women
my age - between the 30s or 40s, fibroids occurs more frequently.
B) My fibroids are noncancerous tumors that grow slowly.
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C) My associated problems I have had are pelvic pressure and
pain, urinary incontinence, frequent urination or urine retention
and constipation.
D) Fibroids that cause no problems still need to be taken out. -
ANSWER-D: Fibroids that cause no problems still need to be
taken out.
An elderly client admitted after a fall begins to seize and loses
consciousness. What action by the nurse is appropriate to do
next?
A) Stay with client and observe for airway obstruction
B) Collect pillows and pad the side rails of the bed
C) Place an oral airway in the mouth and suction
D) Announce a cardiac arrest, and assist with intubation -
ANSWER-A: Stay with client and observe for airway obstruction
A nurse is providing care to a primigravida whose membranes
spontaneously ruptured (ROM) 4 hours ago. Labor is to be
induced. At the time of the ROM the vital signs were T-99.8
degrees F, P-84, R-20, BP-130/78, and fetal heart tones (FHT)
148 beats/min. Which assessment findings taken now may be an
HESI COMPREHENSIVE EXIT EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+|
||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
The nurse is about to assess a 6 month-old child with nonorganic
failure-to thrive (NOFTT). Upon entering the room, the nurse
would expect the baby to be
A) Irritable and "colicky" with no attempts to pull to standing
B) Alert, laughing and playing with a rattle, sitting with support
C)Skin color dusky with poor skin turgor over abdomen
D) Pale, thin arms and legs, uninterested in surroundings -
ANSWER-D: Pale, thin arms and legs, uninterested in
surroundings
As the nurse is speaking with a group of teens which of these side
effects of chemotherapy for cancer would the nurse expect this
group to be more interested in during the discussion?
A) Mouth sores
B) Fatigue
C) Diarrhea
D) Hair loss - ANSWER-D: Hair loss
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While caring for a client who was admitted with myocardial
infarction (MI) 2 days ago, the nurse notes today's temperature is
101.1 degrees Fahrenheit (38.5 degrees Celsius). The
appropriate
nursing intervention is to
A) Call the health care provider immediately
B) Administer acetaminophen as ordered as this is normal at this
time
C) Send blood, urine and sputum for culture
D) Increase the client's fluid intake - ANSWER-B: Administer
acetaminophen as ordered as this is normal at this time
A client is admitted for first and second degree burns on the face,
neck, anterior chest and hands. The nurse's priority should be
A) Cover the areas with dry sterile dressings
B) Assess for dyspnea or stridor
C) Initiate intravenous therapy
D) Administer pain medication - ANSWER-B: Assess for dyspnea
or stridor
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Which of these clients who call the community health clinic would
the nurse ask to come in that day to be seen by the health care
provider?
A) I started my period and now my urine has turned bright red.
B) I am an diabetic and today I have been going to the bathroom
every hour.
C) I was started on medicine yesterday for a urine infection. Now
my lower belly hurts when I go to the bathroom.
D) I went to the bathroom and my urine looked very red and it
didn't hurt when I went. - ANSWER-D: I went to the bathroom and
my urine looked very red and it didn't hurt when I went.
A middle aged woman talks to the nurse in the health care
provider's office about uterine fibroids also called leiomyomas or
myomas. What statement by the woman indicates more education
is needed?
A) I am one out of every 4 women that get fibroids, and of women
my age - between the 30s or 40s, fibroids occurs more frequently.
B) My fibroids are noncancerous tumors that grow slowly.
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C) My associated problems I have had are pelvic pressure and
pain, urinary incontinence, frequent urination or urine retention
and constipation.
D) Fibroids that cause no problems still need to be taken out. -
ANSWER-D: Fibroids that cause no problems still need to be
taken out.
An elderly client admitted after a fall begins to seize and loses
consciousness. What action by the nurse is appropriate to do
next?
A) Stay with client and observe for airway obstruction
B) Collect pillows and pad the side rails of the bed
C) Place an oral airway in the mouth and suction
D) Announce a cardiac arrest, and assist with intubation -
ANSWER-A: Stay with client and observe for airway obstruction
A nurse is providing care to a primigravida whose membranes
spontaneously ruptured (ROM) 4 hours ago. Labor is to be
induced. At the time of the ROM the vital signs were T-99.8
degrees F, P-84, R-20, BP-130/78, and fetal heart tones (FHT)
148 beats/min. Which assessment findings taken now may be an
