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.
Has anyone taken the pharmacology and medsurg Hesi yet? If so, how was it and how did you guys study for it (pharmacology in particular...I took the class about a year ago, and I have no idea where to start from in studying for the HESI....)? And what are good books/resouces to use to prepare for these tests... Thanks guys
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 :-)
I know someone who used that book, and she did magnificent. She did get a higher score than me too
But for us broke folks, NCLEX-3500/4000 really should be sufficient... if you were paying attention through out school
I took the fundamentals exam today and made a 949 (85.35%) there were several things on it we did not cover in fundamentals. My class was pretty mad over this and the class average was 832 with the national average of 859 and a recommended score of 900. I bought the comprehensive HESI review book that came out recently and the book itself is more geared for med surg but it did come with online practice questions specifically for fundamentals in study mode and a practice exam. Each was 75 questions and I was disappointed that they were the same questions only difference is in study mode you have the rationale. Studying for my final helped me none what so ever for the HESI.
hmmm, do you think I should purchase a HESI review book then? We mostly used our Fundamentals books this semester, but the last few units we've covered was completely from our med surg book.
My school requires the HESI case studies and practice tests, and the cost is tacked on to our tuition as a fee. A couple of students in my class had the HESI book, but didn't feel it gave them anything they didn't get from the case studies and practice tests. Some of us liked Saunders better and some liked Lippencotts better, but most of us used non-HESI NCLEX review books.
Jennyn90, my class took the fundamentals today too, and we also felt the test included a lot of material that we did not cover in class. Our class average was 1039, so we did pretty well, but it was annoying.
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I recently took my end of the semester HESI for medsurg and did extremely well on it. I used the HESI review for the NCLEX mentioned in this thread as well as the practice tests. During the semester I did the evolve case studies and patient reviews that are recommended by my school. I also used Hurst and practice questions from the text book.
Thank you! I went and purchased the 4th edition today since I've heard lots of good things about it from you all. I hope it works for me like it has for others.
My school doesn't require the case studies, so I'll be missing out on those and I can't afford to purchase anything else at the moment. lol
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I hadn't thought about trying that. Is that possible? lol