Hesi In Two Days...Now what?

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I have the Hesi on Friday. I really don't know how else to study for this exam. I reviewed the Hurst notes cover to cover and did the questions in the Silvestri/Saunders book as well as reviewed some of the content in silvestri/saunders as I noted information there that wasn't in Hurst, looked over my powerpoints, do at least 200-300 questions a day on the evolve website, did the Hurst questions and read the rationals for all the questions I get wrong, I looked up acronyms to help me remember stuff like cranial nerves. Also, I went to hesistudy.com and did the questions there and what I get wrong, I read the rationales. What I don't know in any questions I go back and look in my Med-Surg book for the disease itself and read about it as well as signs, symptoms, treatments and how it's diagnosed.

I don't know what else to do. I'm still not feeling confident I'll pass. The first time around, I walked in cold, had terrible headaches and pulled a 673 :(. I need to get a better score than this. I just don't feel confident at all!

What else is there???

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These are the tactics I took to pass the Hesi Exit Exam....you'll be okay...prayers for your success! Good Luck

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These are the tactics I took to pass the Hesi Exit Exam....you'll be okay...prayers for your success! Good Luck

Thanks 2bNurse. I'm beyond terrified

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I took the Exit HESI a couple months ago and passed it. Just this week I did the Hurst Review (loved it!). From my experience I think there is a slight difference in philosophy between the HESI questions and the NCLEX (Hurst) questions. HESI seems to want you to assess more before performing interventions, while NCLEX tends to want you to pick the intervention that will keep the patient from dying (more realistic in my opinion).

In other words, when NCLEX gives you a list of acute signs/symptoms they want you to assume that the worst possible disease process is going on and choose an intervention that will help the patient. HESI doesn't always follow this philosophy in my experience; a lot of times (but not always!) the questions want you to gather further assessment data before intervening.

Again this is just my theory. Honestly I think the HESI is a horrible exam with many bad questions, but in order to pass you need to get into a HESI mindset. I would recommend purchasing the NCLEX Review book WRITTEN BY HESIon Amazon (I think it's called Comprehensive Review Guide for the NCLEX or something). Read the entire thing! There are a lot of helpful hints in there and it also comes with access to HESI-style questions. We took HESIs after every course in my school. Before reading this book I was bearly making 850 (for those I passed). After reading it I made 1000 or over on all of them! Good luck! Once you get the HESI over with go back to your Hurst material and think NCLEX-y!

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Has anyone taken HESI RN 2013 v3, and if so how was it? How did you study for it? I really need to pass this HESI so I can graduate this May. I don't want to disappointment my family.

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I thought that v3 was a tad bit easier than v2 but still some ?'s on their of topics i have never read in my book :(

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Cherrydora07 do you have any advice for v3. My last attempt is Thursday! I'll be taking v3

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Any advice on v3? I take it Thursday, last attempt

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Any advice on v3

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Has anyone used hesistudy.com to prepare for exit hesi

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Yes. ...I tried it...took v1 scored 823...after purchasing hesistudy took v2 scored 966!..its most def worth it :)

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