Hesi Exit Test

I understand Val1984 reply about HESI. I truly understand that schools need those percentages. I also believe that every patient needs quality care. I passed all my courses according to the school's high standards and finished with honors, it is not just and right for the school to put my life on hold just because of failing HESI, which was not even part of the curriculum to begin with! They give this comprehensive exam from an outside agency only at the end of the program- which is suppose to judge me if I become a good nurse in the future!? What about the grueling years I went through just to finish nursing school? Does that mean I have to put everything to waste just because of failing HESI? Any body in their right mind would think this is unfair. Why am i being punished for this. HESI has caused me emotional distress, loss of income and financial difficulties. This should be an AID to students! If it was the absolute predictor, how come some students also fail NCLEX after passing HESI the first time? It is just so unfair. And if indeed this is the absolute predictor according to instructors, why not advocate it to replace the NCLEX board. Everything just does not make any sense!

[quote=oct3d;3576468]Hesi is a very touchy subject for me because I had to do it 4 times it was very hard and used by some schools for all the wrong reasons I passed my boards on my very first attempt because the imformation was things I could relate to maybe even saw before I can say if you use your Lippincottt and Saunders it would be helpful you and your classmates are lucky you only need an 850 on hesi my classmates and I were told the same thing when we started but 6 months before taking the hesi the school hired a new chair and after giving us a Sandra B Smith review about one month before taking hesi she raised the passing score to 1000 this was done because the school needed to be fully accredited and didn't want to take any chances myself and my collegues about 40 of us have all passed our boards on the 1st try and out of the forty of us more than 20 of us almost fail out because of Hesi it is no joke good luck[/"alls well that ends well"

I myself am a CCC nursing student taking HESI on Mother's day (of all days) May 10 2009.
For us current students, are presence at that rally is bad for us. We have everything to lose by being there. I could just imagine showing up the day of HESI and my name "some how" not being on the list eligible to sit for HESI, simply because of a Rally.
I completly agree that HESI has no business being an exit exam for CCC, but I'm not willing to throw myself under the bus until I have my License in hand. I will be the first and loudest one protesting this test after I pass NCLEX. What it's really going to take is a former student with our same views infiltrating CCC and moving up the ranks to be in the power to make that choice!! Who knows that my be me. Until then study your asses off for that test!!!! There is too much at stake to waste time at a rally. Those hours can be in a HESI book, let the others that have already passed (or failed) hold the fight while we do the test!!

OMG!!! I was reading all of this and had myself truly freaked out about the HESI. BUT, I found out that we do take the HESI as an exit exam, but our school has changed it to where you can take it three times. If you do not pass after the third time, you have to take an independent study course. Once you finish that you can take the HESI as many times as needed to pass. Still sucks, but is so much better than thinking I would have wasted all these years for nothing! Man I feel so much better now!

what school are you from?

All I can say is "I love my students!!!"
We as faculty try so hard to expose each student the knowledge they need to be safe in the workplace and be successful on the NCLEX-RN. There are times I worried that I was too hard during lecture, but they made it!! I am so proud!

Good Luck this sunday!!!!

Thank you!! I'm confident that I or my fellow students will succeed!! Without a doubt we will have a 100% pass rate!!

I am not a big fan of the Hesi every semester we get a Hesi as our final but the first 2 semester they only take the grade from it on the third semester we have to get an 850 or better. Once you are done with the whole nursing program you are allowed to take the hesi 3 times and if you fail all those 3 times you are out of the program and are not allowed to ake the NCLEX test.
that is putting sooo much stress on us as it is the program is not easy but making us worry wants to make me cry.

RC2007 states, "hold just because of failing HESI, which was not even part of the curriculum to begin with!"


This is not true. I recently found out that a college's HESI test is individually based off of each schools curriculum from the syllabi sent to them. While I do understand the dilemma for many of you in school, success with HESI has been linked to success with NCLEX-RN in the research.

Many of you do not understand the importance of NCLEX passing rates for schools. Clinical contracts are very limited these days and often depend on NCLEX passing rates. The same goes for accreditation.

I have heard gripes about too stringent admission criteria into nursing school as well.

However, just wanting to bea nurse, and even paying for the education does not mean someone deserves to be a nurse. Think about you family member in the hospital and go from there....