Pre HESI blues

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Hello I am new to this web site. I am nursing studnet and am about to take the big exit HESI in 8 weeks. Can anyone help and/or tell me what is a good way to study for this test, and how to pass it. I am quite unfortunite. The nursing director at our school, well, she helped in creating the dreaded HESI. N help from her. I am looking for someone that can atleast shed some light on the subject. If someone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Specializes in Home Care, Peds, Public Health, DD Health.

well i just took mine and passed!! yay! but not many students passed in my class- they do get another try tho!

you didnt say if you are an lpn or rn student? my advice....learn your scope of practice. review delegation, safe and effective practice and things like that. know your med surg but go back and review fundamentals too! also, eat a good breakfast. take breaks - if you feel yourself zoning out! always think ABC's and then maslows. look at the answers and try to narrow it down...if you know that two answers are the same, then it cant be those two. sometimes three of the four are right - that means that the 4th is probably an umbrella answer - it encompasses the other three.

and practice! i assume you have nclex books? do you have access to eriworld.com? i did a lot of the practice questions - always with rationale so i could understand the answer. a lot of other students only wanted the right answer but if you dont understand it, it wont help you!

good luck!!

JP

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We had to have a 729 to get out of the LPN program and an 850 to enter the RN program. I studied the fundamental skill questions from the orange Saunders book. There were almost 500 questions and this covers very basic information. I found the Hesi to be very different from the NCLEX. I would get a Hesi book and read it and do the practice questions. Good luck and have faith in yourself!

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Specializes in Oncology, Emergency Dept, PICU.

Hey! HESI sells their own review book--that may be helpful to review...

Basically what I did was just review NCLEX questions for a couple of weeks in advance...that's all that you really need to do to study-there's no way to know the questions that you'll get on the HESI, so you just need to focus on test taking strategies...

Also--don't do any reviews the night before the HESI--get a good nights sleep!! Studying the night before will onlymake you more nervous! Just relax, take your time..and breathe!! you can do this!!

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Specializes in Home Care, Peds, Public Health, DD Health.

we had to get an 850 to graduate. we did a poll today of the people that passed and all but one had the saunders book. I love my saunders book. a lot of our students got the hesi book but most of them didnt pass the first time so not sure if there is a connection. another helpful thing, if you have the time and money- a kaplan nclex class or if there is anyone else that does a review, one of our students that got a really high grade took a kaplan nclex success course but it cost about 350! that is a lot more than a book! lol!

JP

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Thanx to all of you eho helped. I passed the dreded HESI Whooooooo Hooooooooo. Now I am taking the NCLEX on Nov. 11. Does anyone know how to study for it to pass it. Can anyone shed some light for me and maybe help with some insight on how to study for it and what is the best way to study for it. Thanx again.

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