HESI® Assessment, Review & Testing Solutions

HESI offers reliable assessments and preparation products that enable you to analyze and improve student performance.

Main Value Prop of HESI

By using HESI in your teaching, you can also help your students to practice clinical judgment and help your program to achieve even greater levels of success. [Overview applicable to nursing and health professions.]

Nursing Health Professions

HESI Solutions

Elsevier’s complete review and testing solution enables you to analyze and improve student performance from admission to graduation. When combined with our adaptive and online learning tools, HESI’s valid and reliable assessments and preparation products work seamlessly together to help analyze and improve student performance, promote clinical judgment, and help your students and program achieve even greater levels of success.

Admission

With the HESI Admission Assessment Exam, you can test program applicants in three main academic areas — English Language, Math, Science — and two personal assessment areas. By gauging students’ academic readiness and identifying learning and personality styles, you’ll be able to admit the best prospective students for your nursing program. Learn more.

Preparation

Ensure students are confident and prepared for their licensure or certification exam with HESI practice materials. Designed to assess their knowledge and provide plenty of practice opportunities, these solutions can help improve students’ test-taking skills throughout your program.

Assessment

Valid and reliable HESI exams, delivered in-person or remotely, allow you to assess student progress and evaluate their readiness for licensure and certification exams. Our secure tests generate detailed reporting to provide reliable insights to direct and support student exam preparation.

Remediation

Personalized online remediation addresses each student’s individual areas of weakness with targeted, interactive learning content. Detailed data and reports allow you to monitor student remediation activity and progress.

Reporting

Powerful reporting capabilities provide invaluable data and insights on both individual student progress and overall program performance. Create customized reports to track trends within your program and among cohorts.

Research

Two decades worth of in-depth research studies and published, peer-reviewed articles support the validity and reliability of HESI review and testing products. HESI solution components have been shown to support success throughout the nursing program.

Thought Leadership

HESI Integration Improves Knowledge Retention at Caldwell University

“Students to me are like a patient but their diagnosis is knowledge deficit, so you have to overcome the knowledge deficit,” Kelley says. “We want our patients to be educated so they can care for themselves and my students need to be educated so they can practice.”

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How HESI Supports NGN Readiness

HESI has a longstanding history of being a predictor of NCLEX® effectiveness. With changes to the NCLEX on the horizon, adding items to HESI with Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) in mind was important. Over 35,000 HESI test-takers have taken NGN items, with over 144+ NGN items actively piloted on HESI exams.

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HESI RN Integrated Exams Score Study

For more than two decades, HESI has provided reliable exam scores that predict first-time success on the NCLEX-RN®, as well as reports that support learning and remediation. This scoring study was conducted to ensure that HESI scores continue to support these uses even after they include NGN items and partial-credit scoring.

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