Hesi

CrazyScrubNurse, BSN, RN · Jun 8, 2008

yeah it caused a BIG MESS at our school and we graduated with 22 less students than we expected. I HATE that test. I passed on the 1st try with a 986 and we consider 850 passing at our school but, seeing what it did to my classmates made me HATE IT.

My suggestion from watching the results from all THREE times HESI was given at our school is study NCLEX stuff not HESI books and if you have time and money, take Kaplan. HESI is very knowledge based. I started a post in the NCLEX section about RANDOM FACT THROWING you may keep checking back to that post and read all of the random facts that people are posting and it may refresh your memory on a bunch of stuff you totally forgot about before. I like studying with Saunders 4th edition. It's a great review book. Good luck

Melony, RN · Jun 8, 2008

When I took the HESI I had 19 problems on psych alone, 16 on legal,15 on leadership, but yet only 1 on documentation, 2 on nursing process, so I would say it is really hard to focus in on one area to study. I think the key is to really look at the question and what it is asking. Is it a priority, think the ABC's and Maslows. Some of the questions I got were ones that I had never even heard of in all of the schooling that I have had. So the key was really to look at the question, read and reread the answers, then eliminate the 2 you know are not right...then reread the question, and if it does not come to you yet....guess...but atleast you have made an informed guess. Our test was hard for me because we had finals 2 days before the hesi. I thought the finals were more important to study for, so not many of us really studied for the HESI. I scored an 853. I was down and out...even though it was at the acceptable level. It did help to show where my weaknesses are and what I need to focus on now...Mine was Mental Health. I hated the class when I had it and it showed in my scores...Just think of the HESI as one more hurdle you have to jump through to be a nurse. Then your on your way to the dreaded NCLEX...Hope this helped..

clynch · Nov 8, 2008

Does anyone have any fact throwing info for the Hesi? Sure would like to know where to begin Taking this test in January.

CrazyScrubNurse, BSN, RN · Nov 9, 2008

I started a "Random Fact Throwing" thread for NCLEX but all of the info is the same for HESI so check out that thread there are so many pages of random fact that were sent in that it was super helpful! I will tell you what I noticed about HESI though...the questions cover ALL subject matter. So expect a little of everything. Some of the questions even gave me a laugh because they would be just crazy stuff like ....A 65 year old man fell out of a tree into a bathtub...... HA HA. But anyway I found that HESI was MUCH more difficult than NCLEX. I didn't even have any OB on NCLEX and very few psych or pedi but HESI had it all. Another thing that alot of our students at my school found out after 3 rounds of trying to pass the exit HESI was study NCLEX books! Many of us for both HESI and NCLEX didn't really study content but just did tons and tons of questions in any order (like you may have a few OB then med-surg, psych) Just random questions. But seriously check out the random fact throwing thread! Good Luck. Oh and by the way I also found out that most of the question trainers that score you will score low. I was so freaked out because I kept getting low scores and thinking I was not going to pass but then when I finally took both tests I ended up with like a 986 on HESI and passed NCLEX with 75 questions.