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UPDATED 2024/2025 HESI EXIT V2 EXAM

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The LPN/LVN is preparing to ambulate a postoperative client after cardiac surgery. The nurse plans to do which to enable the client to best tolerate the ambulation? - CORRECT ANSWER Premedicate the client with an analgesic before ambulating. A client is wearing a continuous cardiac moni...

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UPDATED 2024/2025 HESI EXIT V2
EXAM
The LPN/LVN is preparing to ambulate a postoperative client after cardiac surgery.
The nurse plans to do which to enable the client to best tolerate the ambulation? -
CORRECT ANSWER Premedicate the client with an analgesic before ambulating.



A client is wearing a continuous cardiac monitor, which begins to alarm at the
nurse's station. The nurse sees no electrocardiographic complexes on the screen.
The nurse should do which first? - CORRECT ANSWER Check the client status
and lead placement.



The LPN/LVN in a medical unit is caring for a client with heart failure. The client
suddenly develops extreme dyspnea, tachycardia, and lung crackles, and the nurse
suspects pulmonary edema. The nurse immediately notifies the registered nurse
and expects which interventions to be prescribed? Select all that apply. -
CORRECT ANSWER 1. Administering oxygen

2. Inserting a Foley catheter

3. Administering furosemide (Lasix)



The nurse is monitoring a client following cardioversion. Which observations should
be of highest priority to the nurse? - CORRECT ANSWER Status of airway



The nurse is assisting in caring for the client immediately after insertion of a
permanent demand pacemaker via the right subclavian vein. The nurse prevents
dislodgement of the pacing catheter by implementing which intervention? -
CORRECT ANSWER Limiting movement and abduction of the right arm

,UPDATED 2024/2025 HESI EXIT V2
EXAM
A client diagnosed with thrombophlebitis 1 day ago suddenly complains of chest
pain and shortness of breath, and the client is visibly anxious. The LPN/LVN
understands that a life-threatening complication of this condition is which? -
CORRECT ANSWER Pulmonary embolism



A 24-year-old man seeks medical attention for complaints of claudication in the
arch of the foot. The nurse also notes superficial thrombophlebitis of the lower leg.
The nurse should check the client for which next? - CORRECT ANSWER
Smoking history



The nurse has reinforced instructions to the client with Raynaud's disease about
self-management of the disease process. The nurse determines that the client
needs further teaching if the client states which? - CORRECT ANSWER
"Moving to a warmer climate should help."



A client with myocardial infarction suddenly becomes tachycardic, shows signs of
air hunger, and begins coughing frothy, pink-tinged sputum. The nurse listens to
breath sounds, expecting to hear which breath sounds bilaterally? - CORRECT
ANSWER Crackles



The LPN/LVN is collecting data on a client with a diagnosis of right-

sided heart failure. The nurse should expect to note which specific characteristic of
this condition? - CORRECT ANSWER Dependent edema

, UPDATED 2024/2025 HESI EXIT V2
EXAM
The LPN/LVN is checking the neurovascular status of a client who returned to the
surgical nursing unit 4 hours ago after undergoing an aortoiliac bypass graft. The
affected leg is warm, and the nurse notes redness and edema. The pedal pulse is
palpable and unchanged from admission. The nurse interprets that the
neurovascular status is which? - CORRECT ANSWER Normal, caused by
increased blood flow through the leg



A client with a diagnosis of rapid rate atrial fibrillation asks the nurse why the
health care provider is going to perform carotid massage. The LPN/LVN responds
that this procedure may stimulate which? - CORRECT ANSWER Vagus nerve
to slow the heart rate



A client is admitted to the hospital with possible rheumatic endocarditis. The
LPN/LVN should check for a history of which type of infection? - CORRECT
ANSWER Staphylococcal infection



client has an Unna boot applied for treatment of a venous stasis leg ulcer. The
LPN/LVN notes that the client's toes are mottled, and cool and the client verbalizes
some numbness and tingling of the foot. Which interpretation should the nurse
make of these findings? - CORRECT ANSWER The boot has been applied too
tightly



A client with angina complains that the anginal pain is prolonged and severe and
occurs at the same time each day, most often in the morning. On further data
collection, the nurse notes that the pain occurs in the absence of precipitating

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