HESI A2 CRITICAL THINKING EXAMINATION
TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ The nursing process is... Answer: overlapping and dynamic
◉ What does P-I-E stand for? Answer: Problem, Implement, Evaluate
◉ What is the acronym COVD used for? Answer: Used during
assessing?
Collecting Data
Organizing Data
Validating
Documenting Data
◉ What are the sources of data that you retrieve during assessment?
Answer: patient, support peoples, client records
,◉ What type of client records could you get data from? Answer: Other
healthcare professionals, nursing and scientific literature
◉ What are the two types of data you will take from the patient?
Answer: Subjective and Objective data
◉ What is subjective data? Answer: Data that only the subject or
"patient" can feel and will tell you. Usually in a statement.
◉ What is objective data? Answer: What you observe and can measure
◉ Besides measurable data for your objective data, what other objective
data should you collect? Answer: What you see, hear, and smell.
◉ What do you do with your data sometimes if it is off or you are not
sure of it? Answer: VALIDATE
◉ How do you record subjective data? Answer: In clients, "own words."
◉ What does the diagnoses do? Answer: Describes the patients health
problem in nursing terminology - NOT medical.
◉ What are some qualifiers for diagnoses? Answer: deficient, impaired,
decreased, ineffective or compromised
,◉ What is etiology? Answer: The "related to" part....it is NURSE
FIXABLE?
◉ What does the etiology or "related to" part do? Answer: Directs the
nursing intervention
◉ What does the correctly stated nursing problem have....PES....?
Answer: Problem Statement (NANDA) only, Etiology "related to", and
the supporting data (subj. obj assessment findings)
◉ What is planning? Answer: involved determining pt goals/outcomes
◉ You cannot have an intervention.... Answer: without a goal.
◉ You cannot have a goal... Answer: without an intervention
◉ A goal is a direct result of an... Answer: intervention
◉ When planning what do you always want to do? Answer: BE
SPECIFIC...WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW OFTEN, HOW MUCH
, ◉ For every nursing diagnoses....the nurse... Answer: must write atleast
one desired outcome
◉ The purpose of an intervention... Answer: is a goal!
◉ What does evaluation mean? Answer: A patient response to an
intervention
◉ Risk Factors Answer: do not have defining characteristics....they are
not specific
◉ Between an intervention and a goal...there is... Answer: TEACHING
◉ In a care plan... Answer: there is always a reference in APA format
◉ Actual nursing diagnoses Answer: a client problem present at time of
assessment
◉ Risk nursing diagnoses Answer: clinical judgement that problem
doesn't exist, but presence of risk factors indicates problem may develop
◉ Wellness Answer: readiness for enhancement
TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ The nursing process is... Answer: overlapping and dynamic
◉ What does P-I-E stand for? Answer: Problem, Implement, Evaluate
◉ What is the acronym COVD used for? Answer: Used during
assessing?
Collecting Data
Organizing Data
Validating
Documenting Data
◉ What are the sources of data that you retrieve during assessment?
Answer: patient, support peoples, client records
,◉ What type of client records could you get data from? Answer: Other
healthcare professionals, nursing and scientific literature
◉ What are the two types of data you will take from the patient?
Answer: Subjective and Objective data
◉ What is subjective data? Answer: Data that only the subject or
"patient" can feel and will tell you. Usually in a statement.
◉ What is objective data? Answer: What you observe and can measure
◉ Besides measurable data for your objective data, what other objective
data should you collect? Answer: What you see, hear, and smell.
◉ What do you do with your data sometimes if it is off or you are not
sure of it? Answer: VALIDATE
◉ How do you record subjective data? Answer: In clients, "own words."
◉ What does the diagnoses do? Answer: Describes the patients health
problem in nursing terminology - NOT medical.
◉ What are some qualifiers for diagnoses? Answer: deficient, impaired,
decreased, ineffective or compromised
,◉ What is etiology? Answer: The "related to" part....it is NURSE
FIXABLE?
◉ What does the etiology or "related to" part do? Answer: Directs the
nursing intervention
◉ What does the correctly stated nursing problem have....PES....?
Answer: Problem Statement (NANDA) only, Etiology "related to", and
the supporting data (subj. obj assessment findings)
◉ What is planning? Answer: involved determining pt goals/outcomes
◉ You cannot have an intervention.... Answer: without a goal.
◉ You cannot have a goal... Answer: without an intervention
◉ A goal is a direct result of an... Answer: intervention
◉ When planning what do you always want to do? Answer: BE
SPECIFIC...WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW OFTEN, HOW MUCH
, ◉ For every nursing diagnoses....the nurse... Answer: must write atleast
one desired outcome
◉ The purpose of an intervention... Answer: is a goal!
◉ What does evaluation mean? Answer: A patient response to an
intervention
◉ Risk Factors Answer: do not have defining characteristics....they are
not specific
◉ Between an intervention and a goal...there is... Answer: TEACHING
◉ In a care plan... Answer: there is always a reference in APA format
◉ Actual nursing diagnoses Answer: a client problem present at time of
assessment
◉ Risk nursing diagnoses Answer: clinical judgement that problem
doesn't exist, but presence of risk factors indicates problem may develop
◉ Wellness Answer: readiness for enhancement
