Journal you may want to subscribe to

In class on Tuesday, I recommended a journal you may want to subscribe to.  The journal is
"Nursing Made Incredibly Easy" and is similar to the books by the same name.  I greatly enjoy my subscription.  I believe I have been reading it for about 5 years now.

Photos

Good news!  I think my husband is taking the hint about the camera!!  Until then, I'll rely on your photos to add to my blog.  Here's one from last year to keep you motivated towards graduation!  The photo is all of the nursing faculty and some of our graduates at the formal cap and gown ceremony.  If anyone has photos of pinning, it would be fun to post them here as well.

KAPLAN for NCLEX

A lot of students LOVE the KAPLAN strategies.  This is mostly a strategy book...it is not a review book.  This would be a supplement to another mostly question book. This one is updated to the 2010  test plan and is the only one right now that I know is updated.

NCLEX Prep

This is the book which other nursing faculty frequently recommend.

Preparation for NCLEX

Prentice Hall's Reviews & Rationales: Comprehensive NCLEX-RN(R) Review Last, but not least, if you haven't already purchased an NCLEX review book, I really like this one.

The Incredibly Easy Series of Critical Care Books

Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! 2nd Edition (Incredibly Easy! Series)
ICU/CCU Facts Made Incredibly Quick! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
Hemodynamic Monitoring Made Incredibly Visual! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
Cardiovascular Care Made Incredibly Visual! (Incredibly Easy! Series)
ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)

If you plan on going into critical care, you might want to purchase one of these. I have the one on hemodynamic monitoring and would be happy to let you check it out.  I might even have the one on EKG interpretation.  If you have never seen this series of books, you might find it helpful. If I were trying to decide between the critical care text by Sole and the incredibly easy text...I'd be considering whether I am a visual learner and how much time I have to read, ponder, and critically think through information.  Incredibly easy is definitely incredibly easier.

Recommended by your peers

Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide
This pocket guide will fit in your scrubs and has been favorably reviewed historically by students.

Critical Care text book recommendation

Introduction to Critical Care Nursing
This is the optional text. 

Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 11th Edition (2 Volumes in 1)
This is the text for fourth semester which is REQUIRED. 

Leadership Course

Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends & Management (Cherry, Contemporary Nursing) I've been hearing some frustration about not being able to find the leadership textbook.  Follow the link above to Amazon. com and you'll have no problem finding it.

Hooray!!

Well...you've been asking me to do it...and I finally did it. I have a blog! I don't own a digital camera or a phone with photos...so photos may not be forthcoming any time soon. Then again, my birthday is February 9th and I'll be...are you ready for this...I can't believe it...49 years old. My last year before I go "over the hill".