 | Condition Critical by Echo Heron
Buy used from: $0.01 Echo Heron makes tells realistic nursing tales with humor and heart...a great read! You WILL laugh and cry.
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 | Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse by Echo Heron
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 More Echo--read her, you won't regret it!
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 | NCLEX-RN® Review Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
Buy used from: $2.70 I have used this book so much--half my instructors pull test questions out of here, as well!
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 | NCLEX-RN® Questions & Answers Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
Buy used from: $3.85 You can never practice too many NCLEX questions. Trust me on this!
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 | Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing: Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications by Mary C. Townsend
Buy used from: $0.94 Honestly, I hated psyche. If I hadn't had this book, I would have been lost. Writing psyche care plans is...uh, different. This is a great resource.
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 | Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
Buy used from: $10.74 This explains OB so well...it is a great book to have on hand when other stuff just isn't clicking. I loved OB so this is well used in my house.
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 | Concept Mapping: A Critical-Thinking Approach to Care Planning by Pamela McHugh Schuster
Buy used from: $0.01 If your school uses concept mapping--the newest thing out there--you will NEED this book. It shows you exactly how to do these weird things and you will be so thrilled at 3AM when you can finally finish your paperwork because you read this!!!
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 | Straight A's in Pediatric Nursing
Buy used from: $8.40 This book is supposed to be fabulous because it has a CD and everything. I just bought it myself but it comes HIGHLY recommended!
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 | Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention by Meg Gulanick PhD APRN FAAN
Buy new: $37.11 / Used from: $29.98 Yep, you need a good care plan book. YOU NEED ONE, ok. And this one is fab. You will thank me later, I promise.
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 | Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans (Delmar's Maternal- Infant Nursing Care Plans) by Karla L. Luxner
Buy new: $69.61 / Used from: $49.29 I would not have made it through OB clinical paperwork without this. Here are some specific OB/Infant care plans you will use...it is GREAT!
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 | Prentice Hall Nurse's Drug Guide 2005--Retail Edition by Billie Ann Wilson
Buy used from: $0.01 I have two of these sitting (the 2005) on my bookshelf. I must say I love the CD that comes with this. If I ever lose it I will die. I dont know how the 2007 is, but if you can cut and paste off the CD then you are golden. (Drug cards are brutal.)
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 | Saunders Student Nurse Planner: A Guide to Success in Nursing School by Susan C. deWit MSN RN CNS PHN
Buy used from: $4.95 You MUST have a planner--if not a nursing one, then something! Write down everything. You will get sooooo stinkin' busy that you will forget stuff and this will save your butt.
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 | Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul: 101 Stories to Celebrate, Honor and Inspire the Nursing Profession (Chicken Soup for the Soul) by Jack Canfield
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 When you feel like quitting or just plain feel like crap, grab this. Yeah, it's cheesy but it might just get you out of a funk and make you feel like going on...
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 | Rnotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide by Ehren Myers
Buy new: $21.32 / Used from: $17.40 Here is the deal--I like the idea behind these, but I have yet to use mine. I forget to put it in my pocket. Now, maybe after this semester I may tell ya differently--but these are kind of one of those "I want" items that may not be as practical as they seem. I like my scratch paper.
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 | Math for Nurses: A Pocket Guide to Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation by Mary Jo Boyer
Buy used from: $3.00 This is a great pocket math book that got me through my first year of clinicals and got me a 100% on my drug calc exam. I haven't missed a math problem yet. This reviews basic math and then tells you how to work all those pesky drug calc problems like a math whiz. For someone who is math-challenged, this saved my butt big time.
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 | Fluids and Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
Buy used from: $5.50 F&E are hard to understand, so get something to explain it to you. The textbook is just plain mean when it comes to this. I still don't get it--gotta dig this out and re-read it...
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 | Fundamentals of Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
Buy new: $38.40 / Used from: $28.94 I look back at this book more than my fundamentals textbook. It is very clear and concise and a great refresher.
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 | Lexi-Comp's Pediatric Dosage Handbook: Including Neonatal Dosing, Drug Administration, & Extemporaneous Preparations by Carol K. Taketomo
Buy used from: $3.56 I am told I will be using this a lot this semester as I try to calculate drugs for kids. Should be interesting, right?
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 | Delmar's Pediatric Nursing Care Plans (Pediatric Nursing Care Plans (Delmar's)) by Karla L. Luxner
Buy new: $55.03 / Used from: $30.00 Gonna pick this up for Peds because we are told to expect spending 6-8 hrs the night before clinical on paperwork. Fun, Fun. Maybe this will help me get through it without ripping my hair out?
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 | Memory Notebook Of Nursing by Joann Graham Zerwekh
Buy used from: $28.99 This is supposed to be excellent, so I just bought it. It is on my school's recommended list and a bunch of nursing students ahead of me said, "buy it." So, there ya go.
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