![[ Visit Client Website ]](images/banner.gif)
Monday, 31 October 2011
Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to state the purpose of HESI Admission Testing for pre-nursing students.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to describe the relationship between HESI admission scores, subsequent course grades, and HESI scores in first semester nursing students.
Use of preadmission testing in schools and colleges of nursing is common practice throughout the United States. Evaluation of preadmission testing requirements in colleges of nursing is necessary to achieve uniform competence among nursing programs thereby ensuring competent nursing care throughout the global community. Preadmission testing attempts to admit the most qualified and potentially successful cohort of students into the program. The purpose of this research was to determine if the assumption that higher scores on admission tests are predictors of success in a nursing program is valid. To examine this, the researchers tested the relationship among Health Education Systems Inc. (HESI) Admission Examination (HAE) scores, final course grades, and final HESI scores in the first semester (Level I) courses in a college of nursing in the southeast United States. The study was conducted using a descriptive correlational design, in which demographic data, HAE scores, course grades, and HESI final scores over a four semester period were analyzed to determine the relationship among these variables (HAE scores, course grades, and HESI course scores). Results indicated that all four sections of the HESI admissions test (reading comprehension, vocabulary, anatomy and physiology, and math) were predictive of success in the first semester courses of the nursing program. Specific findings will be shared in the poster presentation.