A some of you know, I have been considering doing an LPN program at a vocational type school. However, I noticed from the archives here that many people have trouble passing the HESI exam since it is allegedly harder than the NCLEX. My knowledge of the HESI is very limited as I always thought one only needed to pass the NCLEX to become an LPN. But it seems that many schools use the HESI (including many in my area) in order to inflate their NCLEX pass rate. Has anyone here taken the HESI? More importantly, should I avoid schools that require it? I am confident that I will pass my individual courses since I am a dedicated studier (I already have a BS with a 4.0) but never before have I taken a single comprehensive exam that determined my entire fate. All of my exams I have ever taken only covered info for one class.
Any advice? All of the CC nursing programs in my area seem to be hard to get into due to constant media stories about the "nursing "shortage." So I am stuck with the for profit schools. One idea I had (and it may sound crazy) was to do a respiratory therapist program and then use that to get into the Excelsior ADN program. My mother, an RN, did her hospice certification courses through Excelsior and they adequately preapred her to pass the test on the first try. So my opinion of the school is high.
Well, just an update (pardon the multiple back to back posts), but to expand my options, I have decided to look into RN programs. Severl people here in other threads mentioned that NY does not allow schools to make graduation contingent on the HESI, so I am going to look at schools in NY and see if this is true.
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Well, just an update (pardon the multiple back to back posts), but to expand my options, I have decided to look into RN programs. Severl people here in other threads mentioned that NY does not allow schools to make graduation contingent on the HESI, so I am going to look at schools in NY and see if this is true.