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Hey Everyone,

I hope everyone is doing wonderfully! I received another “ask me a question” and this question comes from Jenna. Here is what she asked:

“Hi sarah. I am also in nursing school in Oregon. It is very difficult and half of the time I don’t know if I am coming or going. I like your site and find it enlightening. Thanks. My question is: We are scheduled to take a Hesi exam in march we just found out today. I am scared. I know that we have to pass this before we can graduate and it is a predictor for the Nclex. I wrote down the books that you recommended, but is there one that you can recommend for the Hesi. I want to be prepared and also keep from being embarrassed. Thanks Jenna”

Jenna, I apologize for the little time delay it took be to get back to you….I’ve been slammed schedule wise. I bet you know exactly what I’m talking about….the wonderful life of a future Registered Nurse RN. I think we are in the same year of nursing school! Can’t wait to graduate! As you probably have already read I am too also having to take the HESI in March. March 27th to be exact. I also have to pass it in order to graduate…..no pressure right?! It’s just my college career on the line here…no big deal haha.

So you asked what book should you use to study for the HESI? I suggest using the book made by HESI. HESI is like a mock NCLEX-Rn exam so any NCLEX book will work to help you study. I suggest in order to get the most out of studying is to practice at least 50-100 practice questions a day and review the rationals at the end. Our school suggest doing 3,000 question prior to the HESI exam.

Here are the books I recommend that you get to help prepare you for the HESI in March and here are links to amazon.com so you can see the prices of them (if you purchase these in a bookstore they may be about $5-10 more in price):

• This is the book made by HESI-> Evolve Reach Testing and Remediation Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination (Evolve Reach Testing & Remediation Comprehensive Review)
• KaplanNCLEX-RN Exam 2010 with CD-ROM: Strategies for the Registered Nursing Licensing Exam

I suggest you for sure get the HESI book made by the HESI people. I have been reading it and it is super helpful. It contains HESI hints which are very helpful and it shows you what to focus on. Plus, it has a CD practice test that contains 550 practice questions on it. Also, its made by HESI who are the people who make the test so it would be in your benefit to get it. I wish I would have used it for my mid-curricular HESI because it probably would have helped me increase my score. Be sure to check out my HESI study log!

Jenna, I wish you much luck in taking your test and I hope you pass the first try. Keep me up-dated! Thank you for your question and I hope I helped you out. If you have any more questions don’t hesitate to ask

Sarah

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Hey Everyone,

It’s almost the weekend…woohoo! Isn’t there just something about after working all week by either going to school or to work that makes Fridays so awesome!!?? Although right now it really doesn’t matter to me because I am on break and it feels like everyday is the weekend……I do enjoy Fridays when school is in session. After class or clinicals on Fridays I usually try to catch up on lost sleep and try not to think about school. School really does consume your life when you are in college. You literally breathe, eat, and live school! Can I get an Amen from all you students out there?!

Yesterday I got my Evolve HESI study guide book I bought off Amazon on Sunday. I got it pretty fast considering I got shipping for free and it’s the holidays. I think I scared the postman though lol! I knew the package was coming because Amazon gave me a tracking number and it’s status showed it was out for delivery. So I was waiting around all day for him to come and when he pulled up to the apartment I put my shoes on and opened the door and right when I opened the door he was fixing to knock on my door…which I guess he wasn’t expecting me to just abruptly open the door before he knocked. When I opened the door he jumped a mile high and looked at me like I was some weirdo eagerly waiting for her package lol….which in a way I was. He really didn’t say anything after he handed it to me…he sort of hurried up and left.

Of course I was excited to get my book. I love getting packages in the mail hehe So I immediately opened it and started reading stuff. It is really an easy read and the HESI Hints in it are really good. It was a good refresher. After studying some chapters, I decided to practice some questions off the studyware CD that came with the book. By the way, the studyware CD looks exactly like the HESI test itself when you take it officially. I guess they make it like that so you will feel comfortable while taking the real thing. I decided to take the comprehensive exam on the CD just to see how I scored and what areas I needed to work on. Well if you look at my study log you will see what my score was….I was shocked because I felt pretty confident about my selected answers. I ended up making a 58%…yikes I know. So I guess I have a LOT of work to do.

I was a little down about it but after looking on the Internet and doing a google search with the key words “HESI CD score VS HESI exam” I started to feel better. I found one forum where people were chatting about the exit HESI and they said that on the practice CD they would get really low scores like 60-70% but ended up passing the HESI with 950-1100. So that made me feel a little better but still 58%…boy don’t I feel dumb. I don’t know if I have already told you all this but I have to make a score of an 850 on the exit HESI in order to graduate next semester….if you were wondering about the scores.

Well I am off to watch a movie we just received in our mail with Netflix. It’s that Bruce Willis movie Live Free or Die Hard…woohoo. Ben’s been wanting to see this movie…go figure lol! Boys and their action movies!

Until next time,

Sarah future Registered Nurse RN

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