HACC spring semester 2015, evening clinicals

Raviepoo · Jan 13, 2015

Never, ever, ever buy anything from the HACC bookstore if you don't have to. And yes, in some cases you do have to. But you can look up the books you need on the bookstore website, copy the ISBN numbers, punch them into google, and find your books for less money than the book store charges. I bought most of mine from amazon, and a few other places like bookbyte.com and half.com. Also, Craig's list is a good source for books.

The HACC bookstore is not part of HACC. It is a for profit enterprise that the college allows to operate on it's campuses. They are NOT doing you any favors with their pricing.

pmabraham, BSN, RN · Jan 13, 2015

Good day:

I'm starting Spring 2015 as well for the day program. As Ravieopoo shared some things you do have to buy from the bookstore, and others you can get from other sources. For better or worse the Lippincott bundle (7 books total) is discounted 25% off of list. For some of the seven books, it is actually cheaper at the HACC bookstore; other portions of the bundle, not so much. So in the end, if you don't buy the bundle, unless you can get used books that works, it's a lot of hassles to get the books especially since classes start next week (at least for the day program).

The N142 and N143 workbooks (that you do have to buy at the bookstore) already have reading assignments that behove us to do before the very first class if able.

What I recommend, if you've not done so already is go to Welcome | HACC - Central Pennsylvania's Community College and then locate your specific campus bookstore. Then use the web system to find out what books you need by course (all books but the workbook should be under N140), print it out and then head over to the nearest campus bookstore to see if any of the books can be purchased separate. Make up a shopping list including price and total it up. Then use Amazon.com and other sources (it might be far too tight a time line for ebay, craig's list, etc.) to see what savings you would get if you break apart the bundle.

While not related directly to books, a number of the 2015 HACC classes have FB groups set up already for members of the same graduating class can share information and help one another. Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/groupsathacc/ from a desktop or laptop computer (a requirement to verify your hawkmail email address), and then from there you can search if a group is already set up. There is also https://www.facebook.com/groups/245013375611918/ which is the general HACC FB group for nursing and pre-nursing students where a number of us try to help one another across the various cohorts and classes.

Thank you.