Research Survey- Please Help and Answer These Few Questions!

[Stardaisy82]

Hey ya'll I am in Research Nursing this semester and doing a Research Project on the Influence of the HESI test and it's relationship to preparing you for the NCLEX and it's effectiveness to help you pass the NCLEX on the 1st attempt. If you have taken the HESI and the NCLEX please answer these few questions for me! This is the Hesi for the BSN program that you take as the exit exam from Nursing School right before graduation.Thanks!

1. Do you think the HESI was effective? How so/Why Not?

2. Did it ask questions in a similar fashion as the NCLEX?

3. Do you think it helped you prepare for the NCLEX?

4. Should it be a requirement with a minimal score to graduate nursing school?

5. Did you pass the HESI and NCLEX on your first attempt?

6. How else did you prepare to take the NCLEX?

[kitkat83]

To me the HESI was just more practice questions preping me on taking the NCLEX. My first score I "barely missed" passing the score set by the instructors (600 something). My profs told us not to study for the retest (but I was graduating in several months) so basically I just studied my weak areas and my score was over a thousand points. But after taking the first test I studied a lot from NCLEX review books...took the Kaplan review course and studied more... I passed the NCLEX easilly on my first attempt. I think the HESI was a good scare tacket (sp?) to make a person study more. I honestly don't know if you should have a minimun score set. I knew peers that got under 400 and passed the NCLEX on their first attempt.

Hope I helped :)

[Stardaisy82]

Thanks so much that greatly helped me! Our passing score to graduate here is at least a 850...

[LauraLou]

Did it ask questions in a similar fashion as the NCLEX? Do you think it helped you prepare for the NCLEX?

I found the HESI and the NCLEX to be very different. The HESI asked specific questions about disease processes, etc. Where the NCLEX questions were all critical thinking, which pt would you see first, etc. I don't think passing the HESI was a good indicatior of how you will do on NCLEX. They are just too different.

Should it be a requirement with a minimal score to graduate nursing school?

Yes, I think you should be able to pass the HESI before graduating, but you should definitely have several tries to do so. My school required a score of 850 to pass. While the HESI isn't the same as NCLEX, it did test fundamental nursing knowledge that everyone should have learned in nursing school.

Did you pass the HESI and NCLEX on your first attempt?

Yes. I scored over 1000 on the HESI and passed the NCLEX with 75 questions.

How else did you prepare to take the NCLEX?

I took the Kaplan review course online and the school provided a review course from Meds Publishing.