What books did you have to get?

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What books were required for your program? I had to buy:

Nutrition Essentials and Diet Therapy by Peckenpaugh

Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques by Perry & Potter

You Are Smarter Than You Think by Renee Mollan-Masters

Calculate with Confidence by Deborah Morris

Fundamental's of Nursing by Kozier & Erb

All-In-One Care Planning by Swearingen

Tabers medical dictionary

Mosby drug guide

ATI book pkg

And 2 workguides that our professors make up for the nursing department

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For my LPN course, these are the books we have to have for first semester. Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - 7th Edition - Text and DVD Skills Performance Checklists Manual of Nursing Practice 9th Edition (freaking huge book!) Caring for the Older Adult Holistically 4th Edition Medical Terminology 5th Edition A - Short Course LPN Notes - Nurse's Clinical Guide (optional but highly recommended) Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine Nursing and Health 8th Edition PR Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology 5th Edition Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology SG 5th Edition Communication in Nursing 6th Edition What Every Student Should Know About Citing Sources With APA Health - The Basics 4th Edition Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, With Resource Kit CD-Rom 12th Edition (Freaking huge book too) There are way too many! haha, ah well... guess it just means I'm in for a lot of reading. uhoh3

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Essenitals of Pathophysiology, Pharmacology for Nursing Care, Nursing Research, Family Health Care Nursing, Community as Partner, and Publication Manual (APA). I already owned Tabors and I buy a new drug book Q 2 years. We'll use Patho and Pharm for 2 semesters. I'm in a LPN/BSN bridge.

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LOTS!

Nursing Interventions and Clinical Skills

Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions

Basic Nursing - Essentials for Practice

Nursing diagnosis Application to Clinical Practice

Psychosocial Nursing for General Patient Care

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual

Calculate with Confidence

Pharmacology and the Nursing Process (with study guide)

...and those are just for my nursing classes! I also had to buy a book for psych (developmental), and have yet to buy my books for my philosophy class!

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For 1st quarter -

Fundamentals of Nursing - potter and perry (and workbook)

Phys exam & assesment - jarvis (and workbook, & pocket guide)

Saunders NCLEX review

Mosbys skills dvd

Evolve membership/guide

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