How much did your nursing books cost.

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I just found out our nursing books will cost about $800.:eek:

Is this normal???

Specializes in Policy, Emergency OR, Peds OR, CVOR.
Very normal.

I paid $1,300.00 last year for 14 required texts and 3 recommended texts. I ordered them online straight from the college and they arrived pronto to my front door.

Now I am sitting here just waiting for my year two book list so I can order them immediatley and start looking through them. Hopefully the list will not be quite as long as first year.

There is no way I can drop a grand on books right now and I don't want to run up my credit card balances so I have been doing some shopping around. So far I have found that new books on Amazon & Barnes & Noble are pretty dang close in price. Overstock.com and Buy.com are a little lower and have low or free shipping. I have found that the used books on Amazon Marketplace are hit or miss. I haven't had much luck with it.

eBay is a crapshoot.

IF YOU BUY YOUR BOOKS ON eBAY, VERIFY THE ISBN.

I can't stress this enough. You can search by ISBN if you check the "search titles AND descriptions" box. I buy and sell on eBay and I just warn you to be careful. READ THEIR FEEDBACK. Saying that, I have some Fundamentals books that I hope to win this weekend!! ;)

Good luck to you!

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Specializes in Med/Surg; School Nurse.

$800 is about right. I too have books that we never used. Seems crazy for students to have to put out that much cash just to have them sitting around collecting dust!

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For the whole program(nursing classes only) its estimated at $800. For this first semester I spent about $115.

How many books did you get for that price?

Were the books current editions?

I checked at alibis, amazon, eBay, half.com, dirtcheapbooks4u, a1books, barnes and nobles, walmart, and a few more sites, that I cant remember. All the current editions were much higher.

I could have saved on older editions, but it would not work because I have assignments with page numbers. Let me know what site you used that you were able to spend only $115.

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.
How many books did you get for that price?

Were the books current editions?

I checked at alibis, amazon, eBay, half.com, dirtcheapbooks4u, a1books, barnes and nobles, walmart, and a few more sites, that I cant remember. All the current editions were much higher.

I could have saved on older editions, but it would not work because I have assignments with page numbers. Let me know what site you used that you were able to spend only $115.

Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2006- $26.95 Ebay

Handbook of Laboratory and diagnostic test (Kee, 5th edition) - $16.18 Ebay

Mosby's Dictionary:Medical nursing and allied health 6th edition -$17.49 Amazon

Fundamentals of nursing (Kozier, 7th edition)- $53.96 Ebay

All are brand new/like new (no markings etc). and Springhouse, Mosby's and the Fundamentals book came with the sealed cd roms.

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Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2006- $26.95 Ebay

Handbook of Laboratory and diagnostic test (Kee, 5th edition) - $16.18 Ebay

Mosby's Dictionary:Medical nursing and allied health 6th edition -$17.49 Amazon

Fundamentals of nursing (Kozier, 7th edition)- $53.96 Ebay

All are brand new/like new (no markings etc). and Springhouse, Mosby's and the Fundamentals book came with the sealed cd roms.

You did great!

I checked eBay for all books and the price was much hire than what you spent for yours. All the books that I purchased are different from your books. They all 6 and 7 th editions, uncluding Medical Surgical, which is a 10th edition. The most expensive was my fundamentals by potter and perry.

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.
You did great!

I checked eBay for all books and the price was much hire than what you spent for yours. All the books that I purchased are different from your books. They all 6 and 7 th editions, uncluding Medical Surgical, which is a 10th edition. The most expensive was my fundamentals by potter and perry.

Thanks! I started looking as soon as I got my book list, so I was able to catch some really great deals! Keep looking, I have no doubt that you'll get a better deal than at the bookstore.

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First semester I spent close to $900. However, we had to buy books that we will use for the whole program so the paper they gave us states this

Med Surg 1/2/3- No additional textbooks needed

Psych - textbook recommended $128

OB- Textbook required $98

Peds- Textbook required $104, Pediatric drug book $64

So really I have already spent the bulk of my $$. *whew*

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Hang on to your socks ... they told us at orientation that our books for this year would be approximately $2,400. Some of these will be for the next 3 years but it sounds insane all at once! I don't know how many texts that is as I have to go pick up the book list from the university still.

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I Paid About 800 For The First Semster And 100 For Each Semster After

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Specializes in Medical, Paeds, Ob gyn, NICU.

For our 3 year degree the books will cost me about $2 500!

Which is only $500 less than i paid for my car :uhoh3:

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