**HESI Med Surg AUGUST 2022/23**

**HESI Med Surg AUGUST 2022/23** While completing a health assessment for a young adult female with acute appendicitis, the client informs the nurse that there is a chance that she may be pregnant. The operating team is preparing to take the client to surgery. Which intervention should the nurse implement immediately? - ANS Perform a bedside pregnancy test. A client is admitted to the medical unit during an exacerbation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is most important to report which assessment finding to the health care provider? - ANS Hematuria The nurse is providing teaching to a client with type 2 diabetes mellitus about managing care at home. Which information provided by the client indicates understanding? - ANS Include no more than 1-2 alcoholic beverages in diet per day A client is recovering from a transurethral prostatectomy. Which activity should we limited until the first postoperative visit with his health care provider? - ANS Driving in a car. The home health nurse provides teaching about insulin self injection to a client who was recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. When the client begins to perform a return demonstration of an insulin injection into the abdomen as seen in the video which instruction should the nurse provide? - ANS Continue with the insulin injection The family suspects that acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) dementia is occurring in their son who is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive. Which symptom confirms their suspicious? - ANS A change has recently occurred in his handwriting The nurse is caring for a client in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) who underwent a thoracotomy two hours ago. The nurse observes the following vital signals, heart rate 140 beats/minute, respirations 26 breaths/minute, and blood pressure 140/90 mmHg. Which intervention is most important for the nurse to implement? - ANS Encourage the client to splint the incision with a pillow to cough and deep breathe