HFCC Year 1 Books Cost/Need

Those will get you thru first semester. 2nd semester you will have to buy a couple of more, but you should be good with those. Oh, I almost forgot-- you'll also need Lehne's Pharmacology for Nurses as well.

You should buy them from half.com they are so much less expensive on that website. I bought all my books from there last semister and literally saved over $200.

Try amazon.com too. Sometimes they have great deals. I got my lehne pharm book on there for 50 bucks (I think it's now gone back up to 55.17) and the bookstore was charging well over 80. I also got a great deal on the davis' drug guide and I always use the free super saver shipping....

Sometimes getting them there new on amazon costs less than bookstore used editions (I only like to do the same edition-- I personally have found it difficult to have older editions in the past. Sometimes chapters are moved around, info is added, and I just would rather spend the 15 extra bucks vs searching around and wasting time trying to find info in an older edition. You may not mind looking all over the book for the info though and could borrow a friends book to photocopy all the new added info if you need it. Personally I thought it was a waste of time and a pain in the butt).

All I did was copy the ISBN number that my college bookstore gave to me and pasted it in the search function on half.com. Whatever book came up I bought it. It worked for me, I didn't notice any difference when using it in class. Although I was using them for an online class as opposed to campus, not sure if that matters or not.

I was looking at half.com a few days ago,and even using the ISBN I was getting older editions than what the school said they were using.

Try amazon.com and half.com for less expensive books. Stick to the needed books for your semesters, you don't need all that optional stuff.

A friend gave me a ton of the optional books from a few years ago would I still be able to use any of those(once I am admitted?) I have a few of each of diagnosis, pharmacology, med surg,and so on basically a huge rubbermaid tub of nursing books.I have already started reading them.

I made the mistake of reading something I read in the textbooks and comparing it to something I read in Lippencott's. My study buddies would say "Katie, stick to the text book". The optional stuff is good for reference though.