Books every nursing student should own?

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List any books (other than your text books) that you suggest nursing students should read. I will start nursing school in a couple of months so all advice is greatly appreciated!!

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Specializes in NeuroICU/SICU/MICU.

Before I started nursing school, I read Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale. It's a short, quick read, and really helps you see the foundation of modern nursing.

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Was it a page turner type book Or what?

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This isn't quite what you are looking for but you might find it useful anyay: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/nursing-fiction-nonfiction-268883.html

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This isn't quite what you are looking for but you might find it useful anyay: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/nursing-fiction-nonfiction-268883.html

Thanks! I'm looking for both supplemental books that can help with my studies as well as some fun stuff before I start...thanks again :D

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

Fun books:

* Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul

* A Cup of Comfort for Nurses

* Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse (Echo Heron)

* Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front (Echo Heron)

Supplemental books:

* Saunder's NCLEX book!

* Reviews & Rationales: NCLEX-RN by Hogan. Another great NCLEX resource.

* For critical care, I highly recommend "Manual of Critical Care Nursing" - it's got a ton of information and tells you exactly what you need to know. It was my bible for my critical care rotation!

* RNotes - a little pocket guide with a lot of the basic things you need to know. Great resource to use while on the floor. There is a place where you can put sticky notes and you can write on the pages with an ink pen that wipes clean with alcohol.

* If you are a visual learning, the Memory Notebook of Nursing series (I think there are 3 volumes) are great!

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List any books (other than your text books) that you suggest nursing students should read. I will start nursing school in a couple of months so all advice is greatly appreciated!!

I don't think there is a specific book that every nursing student should read. Study supplements are only useful when they supplement the gaps in a specific student's knowledge.....and goodness knows we don't all have the same gaps.

An example are the "Made Incredibly Easy" series. I've seen many recomendations for this series....yet (after I wasted cash on them) I found them useless.....they made the topics so "incredibly easy" and basic that they were useless....they were so basic, I would have never passed my exams by reading them.

Generally, I'd say get a NCLEX book that loosely follows your program (ie, is your program organized by nursing specialty, or by body system?).

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Fun books:

* Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul

* A Cup of Comfort for Nurses

* Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse (Echo Heron)

* Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front (Echo Heron)

Supplemental books:

* Saunder's NCLEX book!

* Reviews & Rationales: NCLEX-RN by Hogan. Another great NCLEX resource.

* For critical care, I highly recommend "Manual of Critical Care Nursing" - it's got a ton of information and tells you exactly what you need to know. It was my bible for my critical care rotation!

* RNotes - a little pocket guide with a lot of the basic things you need to know. Great resource to use while on the floor. There is a place where you can put sticky notes and you can write on the pages with an ink pen that wipes clean with alcohol.

* If you are a visual learning, the Memory Notebook of Nursing series (I think there are 3 volumes) are great!

Thanks! these are all great suggestions, I even own a few of these already and glad I bought them bc they come highly rec. by the nursing students that I talk to.

Also I bought the the memory notebook of nursing in CD format off ebay and its great! Purchased it for about $5 and it had all the volumes!

The Intensive care book by Echo came highly rec. by many other people as well as people on this forum...I have to look in to reading that before NS starts.

Thanks for the suggestions and KEEP THEM COMING! :yeah:

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I don't think there is a specific book that every nursing student should read. Study supplements are only useful when they supplement the gaps in a specific student's knowledge.....and goodness knows we don't all have the same gaps.

An example are the "Made Incredibly Easy" series. I've seen many recomendations for this series....yet (after I wasted cash on them) I found them useless.....they made the topics so "incredibly easy" and basic that they were useless....they were so basic, I would have never passed my exams by reading them.

Generally, I'd say get a NCLEX book that loosely follows your program (ie, is your program organized by nursing specialty, or by body system?).

I purchased the made incredibly visual and easy pocket books for Patho and find that they have Just enough info for on the go studying. Your prob. right about the regular books though, they probably aren't useful...Thanks for your :twocents:

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I purchased the made incredibly visual and easy pocket books for Patho and find that they have Just enough info for on the go studying. Your prob. right about the regular books though, they probably aren't useful...Thanks for your :twocents:

Sorry, I wasn't really trying to say the books weren't useful....I was more saying that no study aid is going to be a book that every nursing student should own.

Peace,

CuriousMe

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Sorry, I wasn't really trying to say the books weren't useful....I was more saying that no study aid is going to be a book that every nursing student should own.

Peace,

CuriousMe

Yea your right everyone has differnt areas of weekness...I'm just a really big book nerd and need new suggestions for when I go to borders :D

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

More than anything, I wouldn't take any test without doing tons of NCLEX questions on that particular topic. I tell my students this all the time!!

Also, Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales series is great! They make one for pretty much any content area.

I also like the spiral bound RNNotes, OBNotes, etc that another post mentioned. Handy for clinicals.

My favorite tool, if allowed by your school, is actually an iPod touch :)

I have downloaded several NCLEX guides specific to content areas, and quiz my students using them. They enjoy it (or perhaps enjoy is not the word, but they benefit from it!) and constantly ask for "more NCLEX questions!!"

There are so many nursing applications and books for iPhone/iPod.

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