Which of these books are beneficial?

[Raas4555]

I have some of the following books on hold. I would appreciate any advice on what books to buy. I am not in the nursing program yet (taking prerequisites) and just want to benefit myself so I am not asking from a curriculum angle, just what is more or less beneficial from your experience.

Thanks:

Pharmacology for Nursing Care 5th Ed.

Richard A Lehne, PHD

Hardcover

$10.00 LIKE NEW

ISBN 0-7216-9843-3

Fundamentals of Nursing 6th Ed.

Includes unopened student CD

Potter-Perry

Hardcover

$30.00 NEW

ISBN 0-323-02586-2

Fundamentals of Nursing 6th Ed.

Study Guide and Skills Performance Checklists

Geralyn Ochs

Paperback

$20.00 NEW unmarked inside some scratches on cover

ISBN 0-323-02585-4

Understanding Nursing Research 4th Ed.

Building and Evidence-Based Practice

Includes unopened student CD

Nancy Burns and Susan K. Grove

Paperback

$40.00 LIKE NEW

ISBN-13 978-1-4160-2640-2

ISBN 1-4160-2640-1

Essentials of Pathophysiology

Concepts of Altered Health States

Includes student CD

Carol Mattson Porth

Paperback

$20.00 GOOD Condition

ISBN 0-7817-4645-0

Nursing Fundamentals

Reviews and Rationales

Mary Ann Hogan, Donna Bowles, Judy E. White

Paperback

$10.00 LIKE NEW Missing CD

ISBN 0-13-030455-7

Physical Examination and Health Assessment 4th Ed.

Includes unopened student CD

Carolyn Jarvis

Hardcover

$45.00 LIKE NEW

ISBN 0-7216-9773-9

Introduction to Critical Care Nursing 4th Ed.

Includes unopened student CD

Sole, Klein, Moseley

Hardcover

$45.00 NEW

ISBN-13 978-0-7216-0520-3

ISBN-10 0-7216-0520-6

Nursing Diagnosis Application to Clinical Practice 10th Ed.

Includes Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis

Lynda Juall Carpenito-Moyet

Paperback

$25.00 GOOD condition

ISBN 0-7817-4354-0

Community and Public Health Nursing 5th Ed.

Stanhope, Lancaster

Hardcover

$15.00 GOOD condition

ISBN 0-32300749-x

Nursing Diagnonis Handbook

A Guide to Planning Care

Ackley, Ladwig

Paperback

$10.00 GOOD condition

ISBN 0-323-01459-3

Professional Nursing Concepts and Challenges

Kay Kittrell Chitty

Paperback

$20.00 NEW

ISBN 0-7216-0695-4

Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN 2nd Ed.

Linda Ann Silvestri

Paperback

$10.00 Acceptable condition, missing CD

ISBN 0-7216-9235-4

Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Nursing for NCLEX-RN 17th Ed.

Saxton, Nugent, Pelikan

Paperback

$15.00 Good Condition, with CD

ISBN 0-323-01642-1

Lippincott's Review for NCLEX-RN Examination 8th Ed.

Diane M. Billings

Paperback

$10.00 Acceptable condition, missing CD, some highlighting

ISBN 1-58255-360-2

Davis's NCLEX-RN Review 3rd Ed.

Patricia Gauntlett Beare

Paperback

$15.00 Good condition, with CD

ISBN 0-8036-0577-3

Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2006

Springhouse

$5.00 Good condition, missing CD

ISBN 1-58255-437-4

Children's Hospital

6 West Handbook 4th Ed.

$5.00

Health Psychology Biopsychosocial Interactions 4th Ed.

Edward P. Sarafino

Hardcover

$25.00 LIKE NEW

ISBN 0-471-35940-8

Linear Algebra 3rd Ed.

Fraleigh Beauregard

$10.00 Good Condition, Missing CD

ISBN 0-201-52675-1

General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry 2nd Ed.

H. Stephen Stoker

$10.00 Good Condition, missing CD

ISBN 0-618-05206-2

[sweetjean143]

I would get this one for sure:

Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN 2nd Ed.

Linda Ann Silvestri

Paperback

$10.00 Acceptable condition, missing CD

ISBN 0-7216-9235-4

Can you please tell me where this list came from? Is it Amazon?

I am just wondering because I work as an SNA on 6west at children's hospital and I thought this was weird :

Children's Hospital

6 West Handbook 4th Ed.

$5.00

Since you are not in the program, I probably wouldn't get any actual textbooks because you are going to have to buy plenty of those.

I would get....an nclex book that has a review and pratice questions...maybe you can familiarize yourself with the style of questions., and definitely brush up on your patho, anatomy and medical terminology (a medical dictionary for sure)

Good luck to you.

[MaryAnn_RN]

I would look for the best A&P book that you can - Tortora was good.

[Raas4555]

I would get this one for sure:

Comprehensive Review for NCLEX-RN 2nd Ed.

Linda Ann Silvestri

Paperback

$10.00 Acceptable condition, missing CD

ISBN 0-7216-9235-4

Can you please tell me where this list came from? Is it Amazon?

I am just wondering because I work as an SNA on 6west at children's hospital and I thought this was weird :

Children's Hospital

6 West Handbook 4th Ed.

$5.00

Since you are not in the program, I probably wouldn't get any actual textbooks because you are going to have to buy plenty of those.

I would get....an nclex book that has a review and pratice questions...maybe you can familiarize yourself with the style of questions., and definitely brush up on your patho, anatomy and medical terminology (a medical dictionary for sure)

Good luck to you.

This is a personal sale of books from someone who is already a nurse. I have Pharmacology now but the book is terrible, and also want to have some familiarity with the material before starting the classes so I will probably be buying a few textbooks.

Why specifically do you recommend the Silvestri prep book, is it better than the Saunders or Mosby's in your view?

Thanks

[Raas4555]

I would look for the best A&P book that you can - Tortora was good.

I have Martini already and like it though I think it's a little more basic than other, but it is very clear.

I am really looking for reviews of anything actually in this list though, but thanks.

[deftonez188]

Without reading that entire list, anything by the 'Made Incredibly Easy' nursing series (esp. patho) and a good health assessment book.

[NightOwl0624]

I would recommend the Pharm book by Richard Lehne, especially if you don't like your pharm book.

I hated my pharm book, and picked up an older edition of Pharmacology for Nursing Care and really liked it a lot. It made things much more clear than my text book.

I would also pick up some NCLEX review books to have on hand. I bought some older editions for much cheaper and think they are fine.

The rest I would probably wait until you get your reading lists. Don't want to waste too much money...

[WayneStateKatie]

Lehne is what we're using for pharm and it's pretty good.

We're also using the Porth patho book and jarvis' health assessment. I really like jarvis and porth is pretty good as far as patho goes (just not my favorite subject :stone)

Can't say anything about the others since I haven't used them.

[missgigius, RN]

Nursing Diagnonis Handbook

A Guide to Planning Care

Ackley, Ladwig

Paperback

$10.00 GOOD condition

ISBN 0-323-01459-3

I LOVE this book and highly recommend it!! I like that it list the disease and then all of the possible nursing diagnoses for that particular disease right in the front of the book. I use it as a guide, first I come up with all of my diagnoses for my patient and then use this book to see if I am on point or if I omitted any possible diagnoses for that disease process. It is compact so it is easy to carry with me to clinicals. I have several care plan books and this has been the most helpful and saves me a lot of time.