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Thank you for this post. It struck me a little too close to home regarding a patient that I cared for this week.

Hi all! I'm a new grad moving to Albuquerque this summer and was wondering if anybody has advice regarding the hospitals. I've applied for positions at UNM, Presbyterian, and Lovelace, so far, and I plan on making a trip out there by early May. Any advice for a new grad R.N. seeking employment in Albuquerque would be appreciated.

Hi Mercedes, here's a copy of the reply that I posted on the other HESI thread: Oh my goodness, don't pay attention to the scores on that disk! My classmates and I all had the book and disk to study by, and we were all having trouble scoring higher than in the 70ish percentile according to the disk's scoring. Well, we all took the HESI exit exam in January, and we all passed it with a class average percentile above 90. The disk is good for practice, but the questions are all weighted equally, while the "real" exam apparently has different penalties for questions missed based on how difficult the questions are judged to be. The HESI hints have been helpful to me on the past exams.

I agree that the HESI study guide is helpful - if you have time, try to review the little gray boxes titled "HESI Hints" just before the test because some questions will be related to those hints.

This website was listed in the textbook for the Nursing Research class that I just completed. I didn't care too much for some parts of the textbook, but I have truly enjoyed reading this site!