Keep textbooks after completing classes?

[MizzMo]

I start RPN at Centennial College this week and am really looking forward to it.

I have already completed a couple of classes online: Developmental Psychology and Perspectives on Human Sexuality.

I really enjoyed these classes and have no desire to sell/part ways with these textbooks.

I personally feel like they're good resources that may be good to have in the future when writing papers etc.

Anyway, my question is: What would you do? Do you feel it's beneficial to keep your books after you've completed a class/program or do you find it just collects dust on your shelf?

a side note, i'm a bit of a nerd and absolutely love having books lol. so i think regardless i'll be keeping the books just for the sake of having them. more so i'm wondering if you feel i can gain any additional use out of them as i pursue my studies as a nursing student.

Thanks!!

[LisalaRN99, BSN, RN]

After a few years, old textbooks just collect dust. I had thought I could use them as reference books for future classes, but even then, as the years went by, as sources they were too old. I hauled my original nursing school books around for 10 years and finally gave them away to a thrift store!!

[canadianhungarian]

I graduated 2 years ago and kept my nursing texts (like med/surg, foundations, pharm, patho, etc). I sold all the extra credit courses ones I had to take (I had to take a anthropology course- 20th century crimes lol) ones like that. I did keep my lippoincotts Rn exam study guide. I use that book and my med/surg book almost weekly just for a quick reference. I keep my Rn review one in my locker in case I need it.

[Fiona59]

Collecting dust on the shelf. Opened the maternal/child one once about 12 years ago.

In-services at work, journals, and our hospital library keep me up to date, oh and the 'net for stuff I need right now. The intra- net at work has a fantastic formulary for drugs

[JeanettePNP, MSN, RN, NP]

I sold some stuff that I later regretted, and bought it back online -- things like my patho textbook, and some of my old psychology texts. I find that I need to periodically refresh things that I learned or I forget them. I do a full re-read of A&P and patho at least once a year. The pharm text I used in nursing school is very helpful, although the one I bought for grad school is pretty much useless.

My psychology texts are particularly helpful when I"m trying to figure out how to deal with some difficult patients or situations.

I'm a book nerd too and books have totally overtaken my living space, but I still find myself constantly digging around to look up things i know I once read somewhere.