Any book suggestions for new nursing students???

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Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for new nursing students, that would help to read before like on my Xmas break before I start, or during my first semester. I start end of January. Thanks!

Hospice CNA, starting Nursing school 01/13! :)

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Saunders Comprehensive Review!!! Lovely lovely book! Big, yellow, and purty.

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Saunders Comprehensive Review!!! Lovely lovely book! Big, yellow, and purty.

Do you think it's appropriate to start studying this book even during the first year of nursing school or is it too early?

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Yes, Test success! It's a book full of questions for fundamentals. You need to practice critical thinking!!! Thus book helped me so much & wish someone would have told me before I started! The first pages are how to critical think & take tests! I promise it will help

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I agree! Practice critical thinking and your test taking skills. Nursing tests are way different than what we've encountered before. There's another good book also. I don't remember the title but search for 'Test Taking Skills for Nursing'.

Good luck!

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Does anyone have the edition port authors name for Test Success book? There are so many books with that name

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Med-Surg Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking (Davis's Q&a Series): Kathryn Colgrove, Ray Huttel: 9780803625044: Amazon.com: Books

I LOVE this book! It did a great job training my brain to think the way it needs to to pass the tests. Every question has the rationals for both the right answer(s) and the wrong answers plus a test taking tip that relates to that question. The book is divided into subjects like Cardiac, musculo., and respiratory. It is then further divided into subsections like asthma, COPD etc.

This book made a big improvement in my grade :)

Another book that is popular is the green saunders PN NCLEX book. I borrowed it once from a friend who is a semester ahead of me and I loved it! It gives a breakdown of each section along with NCLEX Qs at the end of all the sections. I plan on picking it up for my next semester.

Good luck in school :)

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Specializes in SRNA.

I just bought that book!!

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Specializes in SRNA.

Sorry I was not specific enough. I just bought Med-Surge Success. I start nursing school in May and I am trying to purchase books to read before I start. I already took pathophysiology but I bought "pathophysiology made incredibly easy"a few days ago to look back on for a refresher.

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Thanks for the advice!! I will be buying a few of these books soon.

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I just bought that book!!

That book will serve you well! Everyone that I know that uses that books saw their grades go up. I also used it to study for my comprehensive final and I did really well on it :) In my opinion that book was a lifesaver. I did a great job in all of my prereqs but struggled with my nursing exams because my brain wasn't trained to think like that. The med surg success book taught me how to think the way I need to.

I'm sure I sound like a commercial for that book but I really do love it and I know it will help others struggleing with the NCLEX style questions.

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Specializes in Tele.

A nursing fundamentals book is a good choice too. Never to early to think about fluid and electrolytes either - that info can be a BEAST!

Good luck :D

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