Should i read any books to get a head-start for nursing school?!

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Hello,

So any books you can recommend for me to read before starting nursing school this Jan 2014?!

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated!

Thanks :)

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Specializes in Cath Lab & Interventional Radiology.

I suggest that you just relax, and enjoy your time with family and friends. You will do plenty of reading and assignments once you are actually in the nursing program. It is overwhelming to just start reading books without direction and focus. Just my 2 cents ;)

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

Reading ahead really serves no purpose. Better to spend your time enjoying friends and family.You won't see as much of then once school starts.You will get plenty of reading to do once school starts.

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So nursing school is as hard as it gets by your responses!! Omg! I'm nervous about the commitment that comes with nursing school :$

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I read a book, it was titled something like, test taking techniques for beginning nursing students. I felt that it helped to prepare me for the nclex style tests that I was taking once nursing school started.

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I wouldn't read anything except possibly a book that "prepares" you for nursing school, but honestly I think everyone feels lost when they start nursing school and I don't know how much a book will help. Nursing school is tough but doable. I'll graduate in December with my BSN. Sometimes I wonder where the time has gone. It went by quick! :)

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So nursing school is as hard as it gets by your responses!! Omg! I'm nervous about the commitment that comes with nursing school :$

Did you think it would be easy? Just chill and enjoy your free time while you can. I don't know how hard LPN school is but my RN/BSN program took up a lot of my time...

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I tried being proactive like you when I first started. I read ahead and didn't have a clue what's going on. The writing almost seemed alien lol. I looked at pictures and read the captions...no it didn't work.

I looked over the animated CDs used in lab class, saw how nurses work at the bedside and greet patients etc. I thought that helped me familiarize on that aspect going over anatomy too I remeber having to brush up on prereq anatomy terminology and pharmacology

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I suggest that you just relax and enjoy your time with family and friends. You will do plenty of reading and assignments once you are actually in the nursing program. It is overwhelming to just start reading books without direction and focus. Just my 2 cents ;)[/quote']

Definitely agree with this. Enjoy your free time while it lasts!

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Specializes in psych/dementia.

Nursing is my second degree and what I learned in undergrad that really works for me was pre-reading the textbooks. Yes, that means I read all my nursing books before the semester started. That also means that when I hear about it in class, I am getting the information for the 2nd time, at least. It works for me and I can't imagine not doing it.

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Nursing is my second degree and what I learned in undergrad that really works for me was pre-reading the textbooks. Yes, that means I read all my nursing books before the semester started. That also means that when I hear about it in class, I am getting the information for the 2nd time, at least. It works for me and I can't imagine not doing it.

I couldn't do that! I barely cracked my text books, took some notes I didn't read, and sometimes looked at the power points post beforehand. Weekends were all party time, literally haha :roflmao:

Then again it wasn't my second degree so I wasn't taking it as serious

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Yes read patho if your program has a separate pathophysiology class/ book. Getting a leg up on patho helps because it comes up again in other classes and semesters, and it's generally one of the toughest classes in the early semesters.

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