What books have helped you during nursing school?

[nickster10]

So besides the required textbooks, what other books have helped you in school

Im starting Med Surg and heard Med Surg reviews and rationals was a good book and lab noted was also good during clinical

Just wanted some more feedback

Thanks

[KatieJ91]

I really like the made incredibly easy series. If you get the versions that were made in the mid 2000's they are really inexpensive. I like the pharmacology and nutrition. I will try out the fluid and electrolytes. I bought the dosage calculations, but sold it because I liked my textbook so much I didn't need it!

[NCRNMDM, ASN, RN]

If you don't have a NANDA Nursing Diagnosis book yet, you need to buy one. It will help you tremendously with care plans and nursing diagnoses. If you don't have a Taber's or a copy of Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests: With Nursing Implications, you also need to pick those up. [h=1][/h]

[arte_suave]

I wish I would have bought the Davis' Success Series of books much earlier than I did. They were an enormous help when it came to understanding and mastering test questions.

[JustinAllen]

I like the Saunders NCLEX review book. It is organized by systems so it correlates to what you are studying in med-surg...plus has a CD full of questions on that subject to help you get ready for tests.

[foreverLaur]

I bought a ton of books when I started nursing school, never used them, and sold them. The only book outside of my textbooks that I used was a care plan book - I wouldn't have survived without it!

[mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN]

The Hogan series are great! They have review books by subject and then a comprehensive review book. I have the Maternal-Newborn, med-surg, patho and comprehensive. I may get the nutrition b/c we don't have a dedicated nutrition class (concept-based curriculum)

I SHOULD have bought a care plan book in hindsight :)