Hesi's. Make you or break you!

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Can a instructor abruptly make a change in the way they use the Hesi right at the last of an RN semester? Hesi's were never used to take away from our grades and to keep us from passing. It was always there to help us. I would just like some insight on this.

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It all depends on your school's policies. Mine, for example, required a passing HESI in order to graduate. So if you failed the HESI, you failed the term. If your school has now adopted that route, I don't believe theres much you can do about it.

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Well they have never followed it to begin with and then they are all of a sudden going to do it right here at the end

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Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.

If it's policy, there's not much one can do about it. And, if it is in the student handbook/syllabus info, that also supports it. Is this the last semester of school or an earlier semester? If the HESI was used in your other courses along the way, it was probably used as a formative evaluation tool, for instance, to help the school monitor how well students seem to be learning. It may be now used as a way to predict who will/will not do well on NCLEX. Pass/fail rates on NCLEX are used in some states (perhaps all?) as part of the criteria to determine accreditation of the school.

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It is the last semester of RN school. We have some really frustrated nursing students due to this matter.

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

I'm in my last semester and we have to pass HESI to pass nursing school.

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I guess what I am trying to understand is why in the last semester do they do this instead of not enforcing it all through Nursing school. This has never been the case through out the duration of nursing school.

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Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.

HESI and other tests like it are tests typically used to determine cumulative learning, not along the way. (That's why, in an earlier post, I asked if it were your last semester or an earlier). Perhaps you & other students could make a proposal to the school that, in the future, they use other types of standardized tests along the way. I've had experience in the past in which a "practice"HESI type exam was given in an earlier semester. This helped students have an idea of how much harder they needed to work.

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There are alot of discrepancies in the program. We just dont know where to start and how to approach these issues. There have been so many changes since the program started. We are the very first nursing class and we have endured change after change after change. It just does not seem fair.

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Specializes in LTC, geriatric, renal.

Like everyone else is saying, a lot of schools that use the HESI have adopted the policy of you have to pass it to graduate. It sounds like your school is just now figuring out they wanna do that in the middle of the semester, which shouldnt happen. They should have to wait between quarters where they can change all their paperwork to state their different requirements now. That way future students would know, and those in between quarters would know whats coming. But thats not right for those of you that are just now learning this in the middle of your last quarter. I'm not sure what you can do about it besides going to ask the Director of the program, or going higher up than that to find out reasons why.

In addition, my school that I went to...we were the second class to graduate from that campus. We went through a lot of the same BS. My advice is to just figure out how to pass it and get the hell out of there.

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any insights on bridging online?

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the General Nursing Student Discussions forum

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