States Who Have Banned HESI

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what do we know about the states that have banned HESI? I know New York is one...any others?

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Banned? Why?

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Why would states ban Hesi? Don't they write the NCLEX?

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Specializes in Home Care.

I thought the HESI was the school's choice not the state's.

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Have not seen where the State gets involved in micromanaging school graduation or testing policies.

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Would be a good thing. HESI is garbage. Problems we encountered were Poorly constructed questions, questions that are directly contradicted by the study guide that HESI itself puts out, answers to questions directly contradicted by the explanations or the explanations supporting a wrong answer, the study guide material on the website for questions missed not addressing the question or giving information that contradicts the answer, Case studies were somewhat better but still had major website problems such as disconnections or refusing to acknowledge submittals, content problems such as obviously wrong answers or questions whose answers contradict each other or answer a later question. If you're gonna put out an education product, don't have the questions written by drunken interns. It caused a huge amount of anxiety and confusion in our class.

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Specializes in A myriad of specialties.

What is HESI???? Can someone please clarify? Is it a preliminary exam for nursing school or something like that? Yeah, I'm an OLD nurse--just submitted transcripts, letter describing why I wanted to enter nursing and then an interview with the DON of the nursing school are all I had to do to get in.

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HESI is a computer based test that they use to test you on different blocs of instruction as well as an overall exit exam. the entrance exam we used is called NET.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, ICU, ED.

My LVN school had a requirement that they would not allow you to take the NCLEX-PN unless you scored an 850 or above on the HESI exam. Basically, it is a test of everything you learned from Fundamentals, Med Surg, Peds, Maternity, and Psych all rolled in one test. From what I heard, it is a way for schools to weed out the people who wont pass the NCLEX and mess up their pass rates.

My school even had a business deal with a local NCLEX review company which basically gave the answers to the HESI if you paid for the program. The students PAID their way to pass the HESI. Granted they went through a month long rigorous NCLEX review. But this was to "fill in" the gaps of what the school missed during theory and clinical classes.

I didn't see any correlation between the HESI or the NCLEX other than the content. The HESI was IMHO harder than the NCLEX. The questions were VERY VERY tricky and not straightforward.

From my personal experience, I didn't pass the HESI the first time. I scored a 790 and was an honor student. Then I decided to take the school's NCLEX review class. I knew what was up. It was all about money with my school and I didn't want to waste time. I passed the HESI the second time with a score above 1000. During their review, they basically gave everyone the answers. Those that didn't take them failed. But there were 3-4 students out of 63 who didn't take them who did pass.

I say kudos for the states that ban the HESI!!! The HESI shouldn't be the deciding factor whether students should have the privilage to take the NCLEX. Students who graduated, made sacrifices, put in their blood, sweat, and tears, and passed their classes definitely paid their dues and deserve to take the NCLEX exam.

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Specializes in acute care.

I keep reading on this site that NY has supposedly banned this exam. Says who? I take it every semester at my school.

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Ya, I agree about HESI having tricky questions. I always did pretty well on them but the questions would give you ulcers. Uhm....HESI is supposedly super super paranoid about its questions and answers, so paranoid that our teachers weren't allowed to take the tests or view the questions. Of course, this made it a convenient excuse when we complained about the tests, they would just reply that it's a standardized test that everyone is taking.

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.

Banned?

Nursing urban legend.

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