Buying textbooks - study guides?

[manna]

When you buy your textbooks, do you normally purchase the study guides that go along with them?

I'm in the process of looking up my textbooks for this term online, and was contemplating purchasing the study guides as well. I didn't purchase the study guides for our course books last semester, and several classmates commented that they thought the questions in the study guides and on the exams were very similar.

If it matters, the two main books I'm considering buying the study guides for this term are Wong's nursing care of infants and children and Maternity and women's health care (Lowdermilk).

Anyone else have any suggestions about books that are good side references for OB/Peds courses/clinical?

Thanks ... and good luck to everybody during spring semester! :)

[AdobeRN]

We had three study guides on our "required" book list. I bought them, used them for about 3 chapters and never used them again. I feel they are a waste of money and time. When I took A&P a group of us split the cost of the study guide and we each took turns making copies for each other, turned around and sold the book on ebay for $5 less than we purchased it thru the bookstore.

[meesa214]

I've yet to use a study guide that I've bought. They sit on my bookshelf gathering dust.