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Student
Nursing Student (you can change this when you graduate!)
The book I sold immediately after the class was aging. Not sure why I hated that class because our older patients are the closest to my heart. The book I will keep forever is my medsurg book. Always helpful!
As an undergrad, the very first book I sold back to the bookstore was my med-surg textbook…it was the biggest, the heaviest, and dreadfully boring one of all! After grad school, I most certainly gave away my Advanced Statistics book to the first person I could find! To this day…med-surg and statistics….yuck….but God bless those who enjoy them!!
Oh…I forgot…my most favorite textbook…most certainly Contraceptive Technology! As a WHNP, I refer to this book almost daily, it’s my professional bible!
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I plan on keeping all of them except my Mental Health textbook (my background was in MH Counseling) before I deceided to go back to nursing school.
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I was most excited to get rid of my psych book !! I will keep my med surg book around forever !!
I think med-surg I was most excited to get rid of… I think patho is the only one I’ve hung onto. And added an emergency nursing text book after I graduated.
My first book I gladly threw away was my Anatomy and Physiology Book.
The one I kept and renew when one comes out is my drug book
I plan on keeping all of my books because I think they all may be useful in the future. However, out of all the books I think I enjoyed mental health the most and was less likely to want to burn it. On the other hand, I think I wanted to burn my Geriatrics book the most.
OB book was first to go. Still have Lippincott’s Med Surge books!
Policy & Polictics book was the first to go! My MedSurg book I will keep forever – great information.
I will immediately toss my Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing book, or maybe sell it to the next unlucky soul. I will keep all of my other textbooks, since they have been my closest “friends” for the past two years. Besides, I doubt I could sell any of them with the amount of highlighting and coffee stains I placed on them.
Hated pharmacology, kept psych and medsurg
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Nursing Student (you can change this when you graduate!)
My Professionial Awareness book I might feed to the chickens but all my other books I will keep
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Had to get rid of that research book! Yuck! Kept the med-surg book. Good reference!
The book I wanted so badly to get rid of would have to be the leadership book, it is literally junk because the real world does not reflect what that book is trying to teach.
My most favored book would have to be the critical care book! To this day I use that book to help me along with my new career in the ICU.
(I disliked the leadership book so much I gave it away to a student in the class behind us)
Critical Care Nursing “A Holistic Approach”, J. B. Lippincott 9th edition
I still have all of my nursing books
was SO tempted to get rid of the nursing legal book we had… honestly just because i found it boring and more times than not- hard to understand. I learned way more from my instructor than that darn book!!! 
but i kept all books for reference 
my fave book i kept is of course my OB/Peds text-book 
LOVE LOVE LOVE this field!
I was happy to get rid of my microbiology text book and I will keep my Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook forever!
The nursing school book I was most likely to get rid of would be Pharmacology thst book stressed me too bad, The one I found most helpful and refer back to is my Anatomy and Physiology book, very interesting.
RN
Registered Nurse
I treasure my Whaley & Wong textbook on Maternal-Child Nursing, because we didn’t spend that much time on it in lectures and clinicals. Little did I know at the time one of my strong areas in real-world nursing would be Peds/PICU/NICU. Still look up something from time to time in my W&W.
Book I dumped immediately on course completion was a horrible psych book. It seemed to have been written in the 1950s, was incredibly biased and had no practical information whatsoever on handling psychiatric patients therapeutically. It’s been gone so long I can’t remember the name of it.