HESI® Review & Testing Solutions

Elsevier's complete review and testing solution, HESI offers reliable assessments and preparation products that enable you to analyze and improve student performance. 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.

HESI and the Next Generation NCLEX®

With all NGN item types fully integrated, HESI Exams are designed to measure students’ abilities to apply concepts related to specific clinical nursing content areas, while ensuring students are prepared to confidently pass the NCLEX. Through NGN content, personalized remediation, meaningful insights, and much more, HESI prepares your students for Next Generation NCLEX success.

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HESI Specialty Exams

HESI Specialty Exam are the ideal way to test students throughout your nursing curriculum on specific areas of discipline as well as prepare them to take their HESI Exit Exam.

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HESI Exit Exams

HESI Exit Exam helps identify areas of strength and weakness and the possible need for remediation prior to taking the NCLEX. NGN items include unfolding and standalone cases.

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HESI Compass

HESI Compass provides personalized NCLEX review, available for both RN and LPN programs, and prioritizes content around student’s weakest areas. Included in this review are all NGN item types in standalone and unfolding cases at fidelity with the NCSBN to assess students’ clinical judgment skills.

HESI Improves Exam Scores

HESI Exit Exam Scores Improve

A HESI data science analysis of more than 200,000 students has revealed a direct correlation between students taking HESI Specialty Exams consistently throughout their nursing program and improved performance on the HESI Exit Exam, and ultimately the NCLEX.

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As your trusted partner in preparing students for NCLEX success, Elsevier wants to help you stay up to date with the latest developments related to the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN).

Prepare your students for the classroom, licensure exam, and career success with Elsevier's HESI review and testing solution.

“Using those products to the best capability has been extremely helpful for us.”

Faculty’s Use of HESI and EAQ Leads to 32% Increase in NCLEX Pass Rate

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Foster Students' Clinical Judgment Throughout Their Journey

Student success on the Next Generation NCLEX and in practice depends on how your program approaches developing job-ready students. An essential aspect of this is using comprehensive, consistent tools across your nursing curriculum that foster clinical judgment and critical thinking. Only Elsevier offers a complete, end-to-end solution with the authoritative and consistent content and digital solutions required to help students develop the knowledge and skills necessary to excel on the NCLEX and in practice.

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Build Knowledge

Enduring Elsevier content, built to establish a foundation for practice, is key to reinforcing students’ ability to make connections between recognized cues, analyze them to develop hypotheses, and take action to generate solutions.


Products that build knowledge with enduring Elsevier content:

Apply Clinical Judgment

Elsevier digital solutions enable you to bring clinical judgment concepts into the classroom and lab. Products such as HESI Case Studies, SimChart®, and Simulation Learning System create an environment that allows students to safely practice making clinical judgments.


Products that are designed to observe how students are processing information and demonstrating clinical judgment when making patient care decisions:

Assess & Review

HESI tests and assessments are backed by more than 20 years. Our experts are focused on aligning with NCSBN to create items delivered in the same valid, reliable, and secure manner you have relied upon for ensuring students are ready for the NCLEX.


Products that were created evaluate how well students are understanding key concepts and using their clinical judgment skills:

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