Spring Starters

MMARN, BSN, RN · Nov 26, 2005

i'm a spring starter!!! i'm excited, but nervous. i still have to go to the doctor for a physical. i have to buy two books, still. i bought my uniform, steth, and my fundamentals of nursing book. i'm almost set. i read some of the posts that say that they are in waiting lists!!! that sucks. how many people are in waiting lists? my friend's is two years long.

mave.

Calzonan RN · Nov 26, 2005

Where are you from Mave? Most of the schools in the Maricopa Comm. College system have a one to two semester wait. I think ASU has a wait as well. I was lucky to only wait one semester before I was placed in a nursing school. During that semester I completed my co-req's so that I could just focus on NS once it started.

How many books did you have to buy? My school required 16 books on my list, but others have had to buy a lot less. I found Barnes and Noble had the best deal for books, plus free shipping.

Welcome to this thread, we have 6 more weeks or so before the fun begins!!

Keli

mattsmom64 · Nov 26, 2005

Hey all, hope you had a great Thanksgiving!!! I finally ordered my books!!!! After much debate about whether or not to wait until the end of December to order them (and delay my finance charge a little longer), but I figured I'd need to get a jump start on my reading so I went ahead. Should have them by next week, delivered to my doorstep, yiha. Only $705!!!! I can't believe they cost soooo much!!! Also, I wanted to let all you GCC students out there know that our schedules are now posted online!!! I got all the classes I wanted and the teacher I wanted :wink2: Problem is they've got some major additional costs for the nursing courses, did you guys get the same thing? My friend going to MCC was just charged $50 or so additional cost for nursing classes, my invoice says $158 additional for nursing classes. Why doesn't Maricopa charge the same across the board? Wow, all this and I still have to get my scrubs, steth (hopefully a xmas present) etc. Speaking of, Mary, where did you say you got your roller backpack thing? I need to get one of those too :rotfl:
Well, I'm supposed to be studying and cleaning, but I'd much rather chat with all of you...but I guess I better get back.
Keli

Hi Keli,

I bought my backpack at the Samsonite outlet store at Power and Baseline. It was less than 40.00 plus they warranty it. Also, their backpacks hav rollerblade wheels which makes it pretty quiet!

I bet you're excited about getting your books! I have all but 3 (which hopefully may come today.) I haven't been able to "play" with them yet though, I have too much going on in Patho and Math.

I can't believe you are paying so much in fees....Geesh, you're in the part time program, you should be paying less!

DH is on vactaion this week so i think I'll bring him to SmartScrubs to give him some Xmas present ideas. I picked up a cute Timex for 12.99 at Target yesterday for clinicals....It has a white face, big numbers, second hand, and it glows in the dark. It also has an expandable band so i won't have to remove it when I wash my hands, I can just push it up to my elbow.....

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

ttyl,

Mary

plchavard · Nov 27, 2005

I'm now a spring starter :balloons:

I'm online at Rio!!

Where is everyone getting their books from? efollet is looking to be an arm and a leg!! I'd be forever thankful to anyone who wants to share their ISBN #'s.

Calzonan RN · Nov 27, 2005

Thanks Mary. I'm going to call Monday and see what's up with the extra fees. I got one of those cute Timex's for CNA class and it worked great!!! Plus all the residents liked it 'cause it had a little flower that went around in place of the seconds hand, they all got a kick out of it.

BSN hopeful, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! When did you apply and what was your date/time stamp (just for my own info). If you want to pm me with your email address I'll email you the info Mary emailed me with all the ISBN numbers on them. Also, I found Barnes and Noble to be the cheapest I could find. Free shipping, no tax, and if you're a member you get 10% off. A lot of the books came packaged with the workbooks too, so extra savings.

Keli

Lisa CCU RN, RN · Nov 27, 2005

University of Memphis starting January the 10th!

nursewannab · Nov 28, 2005

I would be sooooo forever grateful if any of you guys would also email me those ISBN numbers.

Mia

mattsmom64 · Nov 28, 2005

I would be sooooo forever grateful if any of you guys would also email me those ISBN numbers.
Mia

Mia,

Here are some of the isbn#'s....before you order anything you should double check efollet.com to make sure that these books are being used by Rio. Not all of the schools are using the same books....

0323016111

0323018556

0323039030

1416029168

1416000887

0721697739

0721697747

0721697755

0323025137

0323029280

0323022014

0323033512

0323031102

0323032303

0323035620

0323029280

0323030211

0721602851

0721639275

0781739063

0781761301

0803611528

It's really easy to get the isbn #'s...just go to efollet.com, select your school, semester, class, and section #. The book list for that class will come up. Once you get all of your titles/authors, go to barnesandnoble.com and do a title search. Just make sure that you are ordering the right edition! I hope this helps!

Mary

nursewannab · Nov 28, 2005

Mary thanks so much! This will really help. Starting in the spring in the SCC/PVCC Scottsdale Healthcare accelerated program. Have a book list, hopefully most of the programs are using the same books. Thanks again.

Mia

mattsmom64 · Nov 29, 2005

You're welcome Mia! I don't know why I thought you were at Rio! Does SHC provide you with your books? A friend of mine was in the Banner program and she said they received all of their books at orientation.....If SHC doesn't then you'll definitely want to check out Barnesandnoble.com. In cae you haven't seen it in this thread, for a 25.00 yearly membership fee you get 10% off all purchases and if you purchase online you get free shipping and no sales tax! A one year membership will cover 3 semesters worth of books........

nursewannab · Nov 29, 2005

Do you think Barnes and Noble is better than Amazon or some of the other websites I've seen that offer discount textbooks?

nursewannab · Nov 29, 2005

Just went thru my list of required books and compared to the list of ISBN's you guys sent me. Looks like my program is only using about 5 of those books. Using totally different books for NUR167 and NUR169. Guess different schools are using different books. Helps to have the ISBN's for the five I do need so thanks again Mary and Keli.