taking hesi exit for the first time today

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I am taking the exit hesi for the first time today, I am officially nervous, but not really freaking out. We get 4 chances. I want to pass the first time because I would really like to enjoy graduation. We still get to attend graduation, but I don't want to waste alot of money on graduation if I don't pass Hesi. It is not the time of year to be blowing money, Christmas is around the corner. The thing I am stressed out the most about is that I don't want to let anyone down, especially my family, my kids who have sacraficed so much-they never see me, I have really failed in the parenting department. Nursing school has its rewards, but also has some drawbacks, lets face it, you can not do everything and you can not be perfect at everything and I feel my kids have really suffered. They were not at the top of my list. They were not my priority. How could they be with working full-time, school fulltime, and everything else. So if I do fail Hesi, I am going to pick myself up and go on knowing that passing or failing Hesi does not define me and then hopefully I can get back to normal where I am spending time with my kids. Hopefully one day they will forgive me for not putting them first.:)

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Good luck

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So how did you do?

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I passed. I am so relieved that is behind me. Now moving on to NCLEX..... Thank you for all the help on this forum. I have to say that Saunders is an awesome book for content and I used nclex 4000 and saunders cd for questions and read the first part of Saunders on test taking strategies which helped a lot. I also had Kaplan qbank and qtrainer, but I really did not get to use it that much because i just got it last week. Saunders was a lifesaver because it explains content so well. I had purchased evolve practice test with 1200 questions, it did not help me and the hesi cd and book also did not help me. Saunders is the 1st choice for content.

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Oh by the way, I took my kids to a nice dinner tonight. They deserve it. They have been living on Sonic for 2 years!!! Thank goodness for fast food. At least it wasn't peanut butter and jelly-we were living off that after hurricane Ike b/c of no electricity. My first purchase after nursing school will be a generator!!!!:wink2:

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Congrats, keep us posted on how you do with NCLEX

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