Any book suggestions for new nursing students???

[xxkmpxx]

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! :)

[BloomNurseRN, ASN, BSN, RN]

I wish someone had told me to buy these types of books when I started. I definitely would have understood prioritization and critical thinking in terms of nursing questions long before it finally clicked. Besides what has already been mentioned, I also recommend this book: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX Examination, 2e. This will definitely help you see where to prioritize. Also: Kaplan NCLEX-RN 2012-2013 Strategies, Practice, and Review. This is going to give you question strategies and will really help you how to read and break down the questions you are going to encounter. They aren't that expensive either and definitely worth picking up on Amazon or any other place you can get them relatively inexpensively. Good luck!

[flying_ace2]

I'm starting in January and will have fluid/electrolytes with my med/surg 1 class.....any specific review books for this topic that you recommend? I've also heard that a LOT of people have difficulty with this subject and would like to get a jump on it if I can.....

[Stephalump]

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

I'm a first year and I use it religiously. In my opinion it's best used as a companion throughout nursing school because of the huge volume of material it includes. Too much to really expect to study for the NCLEX unless you really have a lot of catching up to do at that point. And I learn a lot from the questions while studying for tests. With the rationales you not only get the reason an answer was right, but also why the others are wrong, and that can be super helpful.

[springchick1, ADN, RN]

I really like the Pearson Hall Review and Rationale books. They have them for each subject and they are really helpful. I bought one for Health Assessment and one for Pharmacology. There are pretest and post test for each chapter. They're great!

[Sadala, ADN, RN]

We started with this one and I found it to be a helpful introduction to nclex style ?'s: Test Success: Test Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students, 6th ed /Nugent. They actually encouraged us to try to get through the entire thing prior to the beginning of our 1st semester.