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HESI Critical Thinking Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved The Patient: A 70-year-old male who is relatively healthy. The Situation: A liquid medication is prescribed for this patient. The Question: Prior to administering the prescribed medication, what intervention has the highest priority...

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The Patient: A 70-year-old male who is relatively healthy.



The Situation: A liquid medication is prescribed for this patient.



The Question: Prior to administering the prescribed medication,

what intervention has the highest priority? - ✔✔Determine if the

patient is allergic to the medication

The Patient: A young adult woman has smoked since she was 12

years old.



The Situation: The patient is complaining of "skipped heart beats".




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,The Question: Which instruction is most important for the nurse to

provide this patient? - ✔✔Call for assistance if she feels weak or

dizzy when getting out of bed.

The Patient: An older male adult who lives at home alone.



The Situation: The on-call home healthcare nurse is having dinner

with family members in a restaurant when the patients calls on the

cell phone.



The Question: What action should the nurse take? - ✔✔Leave the

table so the nurse can take the call in a private area.

The Patient: An adult with diabetes mellitus who was just given a

morning dose of insulin which lowers the blood sugar.



The Situation: The Patients breakfast tray arrives, and the nurse

notices that the pancake syrup and sugar pancakes have not

been substituted with products containing artificial sweeteners.


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, The Question: What should the nurse do first in this situation? -

✔✔Call the dietary department and request another tray.

Or

Remove foods containing sugar and offer sugar substitutes.

The Patient: A 55-year-old female with a family history of

hypertension.



The Situation: The patient is concerned about her health and

states "I have had severe headaches for the last six months. I

think I might have high blood pressure." The nurse determines

that the woman's blood pressure is 138/86 (high normal).



The Question: What action would be best for the nurse to take? -

✔✔Ask the patient about the frequency, timing, and quality of her

headaches..

The Patient: A terminally ill male.


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