Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body

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So I've seen a few references to "Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body" on the internet. I've googled it and its a big bible of the anatomy of the human body. Would this be a book a nurse should buy for reference? Or is it more of a medical student/doctor book?

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Specializes in mental health, military nursing.

There's not a lot of use for Gray's as a nurse... You'll probably get a much better text book for your Health Assessment class and A & P classes. It looks cool, though ;)

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Note there is also the student version of Gray's which is much smaller and cheaper :). However the Moore's Essential Clinical Anatomy and the Netter's Anatomy I find to be personally better.

Not sure of the usefulness for Nursing school though but if its just to peak your knowledge then definitely get Moore. However I bought a pack of Netters Flashcards as a gift for getting into nursing school (oh I have one for myself also). They are only 40 bucks.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

i actually got a real cheap hard cover version of that book as published by barne's and noble a few years ago. IMHO, if you can get it really cheap from a yard sale or clearance or even ebay it's not a bad book to have on the shelf.

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