End of Semester Hesi Exam

[kitten2013]

Well, I'm down to my last week of my first full semester of nursing. Talk about stress and hard work. I've got 4 nursing exams and 3 other exams, so 7 finals this week!

I am enrolled in Adult Nursing 1 and Health Promotion across the lifespan.

My last final is a Hesi exam, which I must make an 850 or above on. I'm not sure if all schools require end of semester Hesi exam, but I was wondering if anyone had tips on how to study for it?

It is said that studying for our comprehensive final in Adult Nursing should help prepare us for the Hesi exam, but I'm still extremely nervous. I passed the entrance exam with an 80% without studying for it, so I'm really not sure how to go about studying for this one.

Is there a study guide, practice assessments for each course, or any test taking tips I can find online? Any advice on test taking or experience taking end of semester Hesi's?

I know one thing I'm upset about is, we all have the opportunity to download the NCLEX 4000 onto our computers for practicing NCLEX style questions and some even said it helped studying for exams because you can choose specific topics we've covered. I am not able to use this program because I have a Aspire One Acer laptop which does not have a disk drive.

[Levitas, BSN, RN]

The only thing I used was NCLEX-4000 to study for my exit HESI. I scored above 1,000 both times I took it

The 3500 can be found online: http://nursing.slcc.edu/nclexrn3500/mainMenu.do;jsessionid=70B17930C9B2D38714F43D76E71A2532

[Jenngirl34RN]

I have to take a HESI at the end of every quarter- today was my first one. I do the case studies and practice tests on the Elsevier Evolve site, and I answer a lot of the practice questions in the Saunders NCLEX book. I have the Saunders NCLEX flash cards too.

The test wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, and I did very well. I am sure you will do great too- try not to stress out about it too much! Good luck!

[kitten2013]

Thank you! I'll check it out.

[kitten2013]

Where did you purchase the Saunders NCLEX book?

Is it in categories so you can practice questions based on what you have covered?

Did studying for your final help you with the hesi? or is it completely different?

[ready4nu]

can you copy the file from one of your classmates computers onto a flash drive?

[Jenngirl34RN]

I got the Saunders book and the flashcards on Amazon. That was the cheapest place I found them, but there are other places that sell them too. They both breakdown the questions by section, i.e.: fundamentals, maternity, adult health, etc.

Studying for my final helped, but I think the NCLEX prep questions and the HESI case studies and practice test helped me more.

[Jenngirl34RN]

Here is the link for the book on Amazon: Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 6e (Saunders Comprehensive Review for Nclex-Rn): Linda Anne Silvestri PhD RN: 9781455727551: Amazon.com: Books

…and the link for the flash cards: Saunders Q & A Review Cards for the NCLEX-RN® Exam, 2e: Linda Anne Silvestri PhD RN, Angela Silvestri MSN RN: 9781455707188: Amazon.com: Books

[kitten2013]

The link doesn't work, but I'll google it and see if I find it.

[smoup]

Are those Saunders item for the latest version of NCLEX? Should I wait until closer to actually taking the NCLEX (~January of 2015) before buying these types of study materials or are they helpful for school also?

[Jenngirl34RN]

I use them to study for my HESI exams.

[Stephalump]

There is a HESI study book out there. I think it's called HESI Guide to the NCLEX or something. It comes with a link to free practice tests on evolve. I recommend it! I've never ended up with less than a 96% on the HESI, send I studied solely from those resources this semester and got a 99.99%. So highly recommend :-)