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I am registered as well....I was looking at the list of books online, and there is two extra ones that say they are required!!!! Are we supposed to order those too???

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I saw those 2 books on the bookstores website and i'm not sure if we need those right now, i'm going to try to find out tomorrow. The bookstore is charging way too much for these books. i think i'm going to order fundamentals of nursing package out of pocket from F.A. Davis and save $184 and the assessment and pharmacology from elsevier and save $100. It sucks to pay that out of pocket but in the end when i get my refund from financial aid, i will end up with $284 more dollars. If you total up all of our books on the bookstore website, it comes to $1363.65.

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I forgot to add....my books were much cheaper than the price on the list we received!

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Thanks lots of love

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Do we need the other 2 books????

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Wait I'm lost! We need 2 books in addition to the ones on our book list? Where did you see that online exactly? I am registered too! Has anyone been fingerprinted yet? I plan on doing mine next week. I can't believe our books will be $1363.00! The revised book list that we received have our books totaling around $650. That is not including the optional one at the bottom of the list. I'm sure that book is not $700.00! Did anyone ask the nursing department where they got their figures from or if the 2 additional books are required? Will the book store honor our quoted rates from the nursing department? This is not good for me because my total pell grant is only $1400! Thank you lotsoflove for the information, unfortunately I wont have the money to purchase them first. I feel as though the bookstore is ripping off the financial aid students who have no other choice but to get them there :uhoh3::confused:

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I just found the link to view and purchase our books. I am more confused now than ever. The fundamentals of nursing package is not hi-lited as if to say it is not available. I also could not make sense of the packages they have, and the ones on our list, since the ISBN #s do not match. The site also states that maternal health and nursing care of children is required. I thought those were required for later semesters. Please please please someone explain this to me!! Thank you

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The other 2 books are for 2nd year students, the bookstore didn't list it correctly. The bookstore is ripping off students. I understand that they have to make money but not $700 off of every student. I'm not sure why those books are showing up like that online. I'm sure they are available or they wouldn't have them on the website. I hope this help :-)

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Also the ISBN number on our form for fundamentals of nursing is for the publishers website. If you go on F.A. Davis website and type in the ISBN you will see the package for $282 and the assessment package is not sold to us as a package. I contacted the publisher (elsevier) and they said they sale them to our bookstore as a package but students can't buy it from them at that bundled price. So the only thing we can buy as a package is the fundamentals of nursing. That's why the ISBN numbers won't work, plus lww says they have no idea why we were told that we could order our books as a package through them because they can only sell books as a package that they publish and they do not publish our health assessment (elseiver) or our fundamental of nursing books (F.A. Davis)

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Thank you harris88- I noticed that they changed the price of our Assessment bundle from $339.00 to $208.75. Someone must have pointed it out between last night and this afternoon. I inquired about the fundamentals package not being available and was told that it was not in yet. The price of $466.00 will hopefully be reduced as well, to the original estimate of $280.00. If all falls into place correctly we will pay approximately $700-750, including optional material. I honestly don't like the fact that everything we have been told has been completely wrong, adjusted, deleted or misrepresented. It does not give me much hope in how this program will run throughout the next 2 years. Has anyone asked about the accreditation? Tammy is new and does not have all the correct answers. Has anyone here actually attended this school previously? :banghead:

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I am applying in the Spring 2012 for the Fall. Thank you all for your postings. It has helped let me know what I will be up against and what to expect. I will know not to cry if I do not get a letter by mid-April, wait til mid-May to shed my tears.

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