Ebooks in Nursing School?

[hannah87]

Hello all! Nursing school starts in a month and the school hasn't sent out acceptance letters yet, but I'm trying to be hopeful and prepare just in case--that's a lot of money to spend if you haven't budgeted for it ahead of time!

Has anyone used ebooks instead of regular hard-copy textbooks in nursing school? This wasn't an option when I was in college the first time, so I don't know anyone personally who has used them in lieu of regular books. I have a kindle, but I worry about it being more difficult to navigate in class or when studying, and I don't know if I would prefer to have a book that I can quickly flip through or not. I'm attracted to the fact that ebooks are cheaper though! I love my kindle, but I know page numbers will show up differently on my small screen as opposed to a large textbook, etc. Any suggestions or comments about your experience? Any advice is appreciated!

[canut]

Thank-you!!!!!!:kiss This is awesome!

[mpihl]

Is there a certain place you find most of these books online?

[Fruit Sucker]

Wow, you are awesome. :hug:Thanks so much for posting this. I've saved hundreds of dollars getting books for my prerequisite courses online.

I just searched around the good ol' internet. You just have to know what to look for.

[h_kitty, CNA]

My school is a private school and instead of regular textbooks this year, they gave us all ipads and our ebooks on them. The whole class gets frustrated when the instructor refers to a page in our book , but everybody's page numbers are different because we each set ours to a different font, or size to read so we have to go through each and every page. What is cool is theres a search bar when you're reading and if you want to look something up, you can type it in and it'll find it for you.

pros: looking up information faster.

you can carry it wherever you go.

cons: page numbers

battery life

glitches

[aela1105]

Thank you, but I cannot download 12th edition.

[Pneumothorax, BSN, RN]

Also, if anyone is interested, I can search and find you ebooks. Just send me the name of the book and I will get back to you with the ebook you're looking for.

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing pleasssssse

[aela1105]

Yes,

Brunner's medical Surgical nursing 12th Edition

Thanks

[Pneumothorax, BSN, RN]

Yes, Brunner's medical Surgical nursing 12th EditionThanks

It's there! It's like the first or second file in the google docs link

[Skips, MSN, RN]

We use ebooks in my program. I personally prefer using paper books to study from, but the ebooks in our foundational skills class has highlighting you can subscribe to. The instructors will highlight important sections, and a certain color of highlighting means that this information will be on an exam. It's really helpful! Other than that, I don't like the eye strain from staring at a computer screen for too long.

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

I have a cardiac diseases ebook and I wish I bought an actual hard copy instead.

I like the feel of an actual book. Easier to navigate compared to ebook format and I like to be able to highlight and write my own notes. And unless you have the Kindle Dx, the formatting will probably get messed up on a regular Kindle. Kindles are great for reading, but not so great for textbooks.

[on eagles wings, ASN, RN]

kindles aren't that great for PDF either... put my class notes in PDF and they were super gross.

love paper.

[weavers]

my school uses elsevier books. we now use hesi final exams. the great thing about elsevier is that the have a program called pageburst. its the program we use to read the text book on our laptop. in addtion there is a website we log into so we can read our textbooks and make notes.

to be honest i don't read. i study, but i don't read. i will use the books for reference and homework. the search portion of pageburst makes things so fast.

what i love is my pda books. i have an old itouch and i bought the pda version of my text books. i can use my pda in hospital, so long as it doesn't right. i have my drug book, lab dx, nanda, med surg, medical dictionary, and a few other books. i bought the book bundle for 200 dollars. the only bad thing is that it expires after 2 years. but it has greatly improved my clinical experience. my paperwork is so much better as is my understanding of the disease and disease process. i use my pda for crtical thinking. i feel so smart.

the pda program i use is skyscape. imo it is a must, so helpful. best part is not lugging around 20lbs of textbooks to clinical and worrying about them getting stolen.