10/11/25, 12:31 PM HESI Exit Exam
HESI Exit Exam COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!! 2025-2026
While assessing a radial Promptly remove the arterial catheter from the radial
artery catheter, the client artery.
complains of numbness
and pain distal to the
insertion site. What
interventions should the
nurse implement?
A client is admitted with Rapid onset of decreased level of consciousness.
an epidural hematoma that
resulted from a
skateboarding accident. To
differentiate the vascular
source of the intracranial
bleeding, which finding
should the nurse monitor?
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When preparing a client Report any signs of cloudy urine output.
for discharge from the
hospital following a
cystectomy and a urinary
diversion to treat bladder
cancer, which instruction
is most important for the
nurse to include in the
client's discharge teaching
plan?
After repositioning an Apply light pressure over the area.
immobile client, the nurse
observes an area of
hyperemia. To assess for
blanching, what action
should the nurse take?
The nurse enters a client's Reposition the restraint tie onto the bedframe.
room and observes the
client's wrist restraint
secured as seen in the
picture. What action
should the nurse take?
A female client with acute Diminished left lower lobe sounds
respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS) is Rationale: Diminished lobe sounds indicate collapsed
chemically paralyzed and alveoli or tension pneumothorax, which required
sedated while she is on as immediate chest tube insertion to re-inflate the lung.
assist-control ventilator
using 50% FIO2. Which
assessment finding
warrants
immediate intervention by
the nurse?
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,10/11/25, 12:31 PM HESI Exit Exam
The development of Arterial endothelium injury causes inflammation
atherosclerosis is a Macrophages consume low density lipoprotein (LDL),
process of sequential creating foam cells
events. Arrange the Foam cells release growth factors for smooth muscle
pathophysiological events cells
in orders of occurrence. Smooth muscle grows over fatty streaks creating
(Place the first event on fibrous plaques
top and the last on the Vessel narrowing results in ischemia
bottom)
Following a motor vehicle Oliguria signals tubular necrosis related to
collision, an adult female hypoperfusion
with a ruptured spleen
and a blood pressure of
70/44, had an emergency
splenectomy. Twelve
hours after the surgery,
her urine output is 25
ml/hour for the last two
hours. What
pathophysiological reason
supports the nurse's
decision to report this
finding to the healthcare
provider?
A nurse-manager is Skills of staff and client acuity
preparing the curricula for
a class for charge nurses.
A staffing formula based
on what data ensures
quality client care and is
most cost-effective?
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, 10/11/25, 12:31 PM HESI Exit Exam
When performing postural Explain that the client may be placed in five positions
drainage on a client with
Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease
(COPD), which approach
should the nurse use?
A client presents in the Inability to close the affected eye, raise brow, or smile
emergency room with
right-sided facial
asymmetry. The nurse asks
the client to perform a
series of movements that
require use of the facial
muscles. What symptoms
suggest that the client has
most likely experience a
Bell's palsy rather than a
stroke?
The nurse is teaching a Keeps the irrigating container less than 18 inches
client how to perform above the stoma
colostomy irrigations.
When observing the
client's return
demonstration, which
action indicated that the
client understood the
teaching?
The nurse should teach Avoid grapefruits and its juice
the client to observe
which precaution while
taking dronedarone?
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HESI Exit Exam COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!! 2025-2026
While assessing a radial Promptly remove the arterial catheter from the radial
artery catheter, the client artery.
complains of numbness
and pain distal to the
insertion site. What
interventions should the
nurse implement?
A client is admitted with Rapid onset of decreased level of consciousness.
an epidural hematoma that
resulted from a
skateboarding accident. To
differentiate the vascular
source of the intracranial
bleeding, which finding
should the nurse monitor?
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,10/11/25, 12:31 PM HESI Exit Exam
When preparing a client Report any signs of cloudy urine output.
for discharge from the
hospital following a
cystectomy and a urinary
diversion to treat bladder
cancer, which instruction
is most important for the
nurse to include in the
client's discharge teaching
plan?
After repositioning an Apply light pressure over the area.
immobile client, the nurse
observes an area of
hyperemia. To assess for
blanching, what action
should the nurse take?
The nurse enters a client's Reposition the restraint tie onto the bedframe.
room and observes the
client's wrist restraint
secured as seen in the
picture. What action
should the nurse take?
A female client with acute Diminished left lower lobe sounds
respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS) is Rationale: Diminished lobe sounds indicate collapsed
chemically paralyzed and alveoli or tension pneumothorax, which required
sedated while she is on as immediate chest tube insertion to re-inflate the lung.
assist-control ventilator
using 50% FIO2. Which
assessment finding
warrants
immediate intervention by
the nurse?
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,10/11/25, 12:31 PM HESI Exit Exam
The development of Arterial endothelium injury causes inflammation
atherosclerosis is a Macrophages consume low density lipoprotein (LDL),
process of sequential creating foam cells
events. Arrange the Foam cells release growth factors for smooth muscle
pathophysiological events cells
in orders of occurrence. Smooth muscle grows over fatty streaks creating
(Place the first event on fibrous plaques
top and the last on the Vessel narrowing results in ischemia
bottom)
Following a motor vehicle Oliguria signals tubular necrosis related to
collision, an adult female hypoperfusion
with a ruptured spleen
and a blood pressure of
70/44, had an emergency
splenectomy. Twelve
hours after the surgery,
her urine output is 25
ml/hour for the last two
hours. What
pathophysiological reason
supports the nurse's
decision to report this
finding to the healthcare
provider?
A nurse-manager is Skills of staff and client acuity
preparing the curricula for
a class for charge nurses.
A staffing formula based
on what data ensures
quality client care and is
most cost-effective?
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, 10/11/25, 12:31 PM HESI Exit Exam
When performing postural Explain that the client may be placed in five positions
drainage on a client with
Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease
(COPD), which approach
should the nurse use?
A client presents in the Inability to close the affected eye, raise brow, or smile
emergency room with
right-sided facial
asymmetry. The nurse asks
the client to perform a
series of movements that
require use of the facial
muscles. What symptoms
suggest that the client has
most likely experience a
Bell's palsy rather than a
stroke?
The nurse is teaching a Keeps the irrigating container less than 18 inches
client how to perform above the stoma
colostomy irrigations.
When observing the
client's return
demonstration, which
action indicated that the
client understood the
teaching?
The nurse should teach Avoid grapefruits and its juice
the client to observe
which precaution while
taking dronedarone?
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