HESI A2 Grammar case studies
HESI A2 Grammar · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The HESI A2 Grammar Assessment is one component of the HESI Admission Assessment (A2), a multiple-choice admissions exam used by many nursing and allied health programs to gauge readiness before entry. This page is an independent study resource for candidates preparing for the grammar portion; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the exam's publisher. The HESI A2 Grammar case studies are 5 cases and about 3,799 words.
1Final Grammar Pass on a Warfarin Discharge Handout
You are the nurse educator at a 210-bed community hospital, doing the final grammar and usage pass on a one-page warfarin discharge handout for the cardiology unit. The clinical content has already been approved by the unit manager, a pharmacist, and two staff nurses; only the wording is yours to change.
767 words, about 4 min2Pronoun Case in an Incident Narrative Headed for Root-Cause Analysis
Six weeks after a wrong-time insulin dose on a 32-bed orthopedic unit, the safety committee has asked for the incident narrative to be rewritten before it goes into the root-cause analysis packet. You are the risk-management reviewer assigned to the revision.
725 words, about 4 min3Punctuation Triage in a Word-Capped Research Abstract
You are the faculty mentor for a senior nursing student submitting a 250-word structured abstract to a regional research day. The portal closes in 48 hours, the abstract has to fit a single text box that hard-stops at 250 words, and reviewers score clarity and mechanics as 10 percent of the acceptance decision.
756 words, about 4 min4Repairing Tense Drift and a Dangling Modifier in a Scholarship Essay
A student you tutor is applying for a $5,000 hospital auxiliary scholarship. The prompt asks applicants to describe one clinical encounter that changed how they practice, in no more than 500 words, and the deadline is Monday at noon.
808 words, about 4 min5Rewriting a Shift-Handover Template After Two Near-Misses
You are the charge nurse on a 32-bed medical-surgical unit, revising the shift-handover template after two near-misses caused by misread wording. In the first, a nurse read "the patient in 412 is to receive the 1400 antibiotic after her dressing change" and could not tell whether "her" meant the patient or the nurse giving report.
743 words, about 4 min