How to prepare for in advance..

I would order all of the books that you are supposed to order. If your program says you need the books, then you need the books. I know when I went through my program, we used almost all of the books (minus a couple) in the first semester. As the semesters went on and the classes got more in depth, we ended up using all of the books.

Good luck!

I would order all of the books that you are supposed to order. If your program says you need the books, then you need the books. I know when I went through my program, we used almost all of the books (minus a couple) in the first semester. As the semesters went on and the classes got more in depth, we ended up using all of the books.

Good luck!

Thanks for the advice. Kind of figured that. You know how it is then. Sometimes we say to ourselves, " If i knew I would have..." much like my pre reqs. Thanks a bunch.

Thanks for the advice. Kind of figured that. You know how it is then. Sometimes we say to ourselves, " If i knew I would have..." much like my pre reqs. Thanks a bunch.

No problem!

Definitely get all the books that are required. If your program is anything like mine the books that you get during the first semester are used throughout the entire program. My list contained about 20 books just a little over half are required for first semester. I did decide to get a couple of the books on the recommended list such as a tabers medical dictionary since my internet connection may not always be reliable.

If you have the list of books that you need definitely start searching for them on Amazon or other sites that you can get your books for a discounted price. My program told us we could expect to spend about $1000 on our books, on Amazon I spent less than $500 for everything with many of my books being brand new.

Great thanks. Was looking at Amazon also. Some of the books that are required are not in stock on the Rittenhouse site they recommend. Thanks again.

I would order all of the books that you are supposed to order. If your program says you need the books, then you need the books. I know when I went through my program, we used almost all of the books (minus a couple) in the first semester. As the semesters went on and the classes got more in depth, we ended up using all of the books.

Good luck!

Not always -- our professors publish a semester book list and make every book required so that financial aid will pay for them (some financial aid will not cover the cost of "suggested" books) but they always let us know which ones are actually required for class and which ones they are suggesting we purchase. :)

203bravo are u @ JFK?...Thanks for the info.

Not always -- our professors publish a semester book list and make every book required so that financial aid will pay for them (some financial aid will not cover the cost of "suggested" books) but they always let us know which ones are actually required for class and which ones they are suggesting we purchase. :)

I guess every program is different. So OP, this question would probably be best asked to your professors.

Did that... she replied, " Booklist is posted on the website."...lol....

Did that... she replied, " Booklist is posted on the website."...lol....

I would play it safe, honestly, and get all of them. You're gonna need them anyway, right?

Just ordered them all on Amazon saved 150 bucks. Good stuff. Thanks and good luck.

You will be expected to have all of the required books. If you are ordering from a site like Amazon or ebay make sure it is the current edition that your instructor wants. We had a bunch of people get old editions and the pages never matched up and it didn't have the most current information in them. Then they expected our instructors to look through old books and match up page numbers for them. It was frustrating because our paperwork specifically said buy the edition in the book list. I'm all for getting books cheaper. If I had the time I would scour the internet for cheaper pricing. I also know though what the bookstore sells is exactly what the instructors want. Your first semester will be your most expensive for buying books. Many books you will use throughout the program.

Do not try reading and learning these books before school starts. You won't understand the content. It will be like reading a foreign language to you. Just enjoy the rest of your summer. I am totally enjoying my time off. And you will run into books that you barely use. My med math book seemed like a waste of $150 to me. I really didn't need it to learn how to do dimensional analysis. I already had a handle on that. But the other books I have used. I didn't use the first semester but doing my care plan last semester all of my lab value books and Tabers came in handy.

If a Nursing Diagnosis book is on the list, take a look at it once school starts and you start working with them. I have this book with them in it, but it is terrible. Even my instructors say it's not real good and they mistakenly ordered the wrong one for us to buy. I ended up getting another one that was in my bookstore one day, and it was definitely worth the price, especially when doing my big care plan at the end of the semester. It saved me so much time and frustration looking things up. I say wait until you are working with the nursing diagnosis so you have an understanding how they work first of all, and then you need to find one that works with you. I know GrnTea suggests getting the one from Nanada that is the most current edition and I am going to purchase one of those before the program starts as well.

When I started Pharmacology I got a book called Pharmacology made incredibly easy. I really only looked at it a couple of times because I did not see it as helpful to me. The book was setting everything up in acronyms to help remember better, but the acronyms did not make sense at all. They would substitute Ks for Cs and sometimes pick an O out of a middle of a word. Or the word they picked did not relate. To me it made memorizing drug classes more difficult. I think that an acronym should be the first letter of each word that relates and don't substitute letters even if they sound the same because that also makes it harder to remember. I'm going to be thinking of a word that starts with K when I should really be thinking of one that starts with C. I'm sure it is helpful for some, but my mind doesn't work that way.

Good luck and have fun!!