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Im am as stated in earlier threads going back to school in January and I am planning to major in Nursing. I would not start actual nursing school until 2012.
A good friend and coworkwer of mine has ha daughter in law and she is now a doctor after 8 years. Well, actually, she just started her 5 residency. She gave me a large box full of books from her medical-school years. Every book she needed for med school is in that box. I want to become a nurse, not a Doctor but I could probably have some use for some of these books. I know that the school will provide me a list of books they want me to have, but I still feel they could be useful. Should I use keep them or maybe just sell them?
What do you guys think?
I agree, keep them, not so much as materials to use as references for papers but just so you can look deeper into a subject that you're learning about. For papers you'll be searching libraries online for peer-reviewed journal articles that have been published more recently (don't worry, they'll teach you how). Look through them, if there is a book called Harrison's Internal Medicine, hold onto it, contains a brief blurb about just about everything in internal med.
Also keep anything Dermatology-related, you'll see something weird or unusual at clinical and want to go look it up.
Just remember, medicine changes VERY quickly. For some subjects, by the time a book is published, it's outdated. Obviously basic anatomy & physiology doesn't change but just about everything else does.
Then when you've graduated you can keep your own books that you think you'll need and recycle or donate the rest.
ok , glass_of_merlot KEEP THE BOOKS YOU WILL NEED IT BECAUSE THE NURSE AND THE DOC STUDY THE SAME BOOKS IN FIRST YEARS iam in medical coolege , but my brother in health science college in nursing section : every student in health he must study this book every one the nurse and the doctor's and medical lab ...e.t.c he must study anatomy & physiology and he must study first aid manual book ( iam sure you will find these books in the box ) in nursing in my country ( saudi arabia ) my brother have these books for remember teachers in saudi arabia are american and britich and french ok he have these books : 1- anatomy and physiology 2-first aid manual 3-medical terminology 4-professional ethics ( how to tried people ..e.t.c ) this in the first year after that you will get in some section nurse or medical lab ...e.t.c it's easy and look i say easy and i don't speak english just in the college and internet you speak it like a native speaker and that could be easy but there are some thing you have to know medical terminology it's not in english it's in latin soo that could be little hard no so match like : hemat/o/logy ---> heamt mean blood -- o combining vowel -- logy study of like this hope for best
Thank you all. I will keep them. I found a medical dictionary among the books. It is amazingly thick and looks really expensive. I bet I could have good use for that one.
If they are outdated versions, I'd say keep them. If they are still current and you can get some extra cash for them, sell them on half.com or whatever.
Medical dictionaries are actually fairly cheap, in the $30 range I believe. Other ones to keep an eye out for would be Pharmacology and Anatomy/Physiology books.
That being said, every class you take in your Nursing program will require you to buy the exact edition of the exact book they teach from, so keeping other ones is really pointless. In 3 years when 2012 rolls around all the books will have at least another edition or 2 out, so you'll need the newest.
If they are outdated versions, I'd say keep them. If they are still current and you can get some extra cash for them, sell them on half.com or whatever.
Medical dictionaries are actually fairly cheap, in the $30 range I believe. Other ones to keep an eye out for would be Pharmacology and Anatomy/Physiology books.
That being said, every class you take in your Nursing program will require you to buy the exact edition of the exact book they teach from, so keeping other ones is really pointless. In 3 years when 2012 rolls around all the books will have at least another edition or 2 out, so you'll need the newest.
I know, but books like anatomy will not change that much. I mean, a cell is a cell even 2-3 years from now. And as I wrote earlier, I know I have to buy the books they want me to buy.
Sell em. College texts become a ball and chain, why do you think they were unloaded on you. If I thought I could get a decent price for em I'd sell em in a heartbeat
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