noelle07

My sister works in the SNICU at Christ hospital in Oak Lawn, which is a south suburb of chicago. She has been there for 15 years. The hospital is a major trauma hospital.

you would be very suprised. My sister and some of her friends are all MSN and nurse practitioners. They all took management positions and got so sick of all the paperwork. My sister has returned to being a bedside nurse.

the hesi is an exam that is used as a predictor for the nclex. if you attend truman you will definately have to take it. i took the test in may and did not pass. it is a very hard test and from what i have heard, very different than the nclex. i don't know if truman has explained how they administer the test but you should know that if you don't pass on the second time you have to take your entire second year of school over. after that you have two more chances and if you still don't pass you are out of luck. out of 16 people in my class who took the test, only 5 passed. buy the saunders nclex review book and study from that. good luck

I think I am just going to do a bunch more questions from the saunders book and read the hesi hints. I also think I need to focus more on test taking strategies. I got an 827 so it's not like I don't know any of the material.

So you guys had a retest too. I go to Malcolm X. I thought it was just our class who had the retest. I failed it too. I was really close though. How many chances do you guys have to take the hesi? I heard from some of my classmates that some of the students at your school were allowed to take the nclex even if they didn't pass hesi.

What school do you go to?

I was just wondering if anyone could tell me what version of the hesi they had. The version is listed on the top of the printout that we received when we finished the exam. I am trying to determine if all of the schools took the same version. Thanks

Hi, I just took the exam on Monday and our class was given the fourth version instead of the first. The other schools who were taking it with us had the first version. I think a large percentage of them passed. The first version is designed for first time takers and the other versions are for people who have failed previously. They get harder because they are assuming that the student has done remediation.

This has always really confused me. I am in an ADN program right now and it worries me a little. I had always planned on eventually getting my BSN, but there is no telling if I definatly will. In our clinicals there are nurses with BSN constantly telling us that we should have to get our BSN to be considered registered nurses. My thought is, we take the same exact board exam as them and are just as qualified to care for patients, with the exception of the management courses that are given in the BSN programs.