First Quarter Books

[VeniVidiVici]

This is quite a list . Anyone have experience with any of these? Which ones are a must and which ones could I maybe do without? Any help would be much appreciated!

Required:

Basic Nursing by Potter & Perry

Nursing Health Assessment: A Critical Thinking, Case Studies Approach by Dillion

Nursing Health Assessment: Student Applications by Dillion

Taylors Clinical Nursing Skills by Lynn

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook by Wilkinson & Ahern

Nursing Process and Critical Thinking by Wilkinson

Publication Manual of American Psychological Association

Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness by Spector

Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook 2011 by Hodgson, & Kizior

Prentice Hall Handbook of Lab and Diagnostic Tests by Kee

Manual of Nursing Diagnosis by Gordon

Recommended:

Nursing Health Assessment, Clinical Pocket Guide by Dillion

Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing by Doenges & Moorhouse

Kaplan NCLEX-RN exam 2008-2009 by Irwin

Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary by Venes

Clinical Coach for Nursing Excellence by Campbell & Gilbert

NCLEX review 4000 by Lippincott

I think that about sums it up haha

[Nickinj120107]

I had a list like that my first semester too! I bought all of my books online and saved $450 compared to what I would have spent at the bookstore. Luckily, those are all the nursing books I'll need for the whole program. If your school is anything like mine, you'll use a few of the books on a daily basis, and just when you think you wasted your money on the other books, or that maybe you could've done without a few, one of your instructors will throw in a mandatory reading on a topic that's impossible to find in your other books!!! I'd just buy all the books and get it over with!!

[CrazierThanYou]

Holy cow. That is all.