Nursing Books-Buy or Rent

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Should I just buy the books that I think I'll use again during school and just rent the books like

Total Healthy Aging for my Nursing Care for the Aging Adult class

And maybe the Patho Book also??

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i would consider buying the patho book --- i find myself referring back and referencing this book a lot during other courses -- especially med surg

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Yes, I would buy the books that you know for a fact that you will use again, maybe even books you think will be useful after you graduate (maybe just to refer back to something once you are a nurse). I would rent the others. You might want to rent the specialty books (OB, Peds, etc) as you will probably only need them for that rotation.

I wish I would have rented more books, I must have spent around a thousand dollars on books throughout my nursing school career and I only got a little over a hundred $ back after selling them. Hadn't even opened quite a few of those books!

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There are many books I wish I would have rented like OB, Psych, etc. Your patho book is a good book to purchase though. I am also constantly referencing my patho book for clinical packets, and for classes in general. However, I did not keep the patho/pharm book from my patho class. I use a different book that I find much easier to understand and is more helpful.

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