Do you REALLY need all the textbooks for nursing school?

31 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief video, the speaker challenges the assumption that nursing students must purchase every textbook listed as required by their program. She shares personal experience of buying many books that were rarely used, and then outlines three cost‑saving approaches: (1) borrowing needed texts from the campus library, friends, or upper‑classmen; (2) renting books for a short term; and (3) locating older editions at thrift stores such as Goodwill. The overall message is that students can significantly reduce expenses by using these alternatives instead of buying every required title.

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Do you need all the required textbooks for nursing school? Definitely not. In fact, there were many textbooks that I bought because my school required them, but I never used them. Or I use them for one research paper and then never looked at them again. So instead of buying all the textbooks your school requires, there's two things you can do. You can borrow them from the library or from a friend or upperclassmen when you need to, or you can rent it for a short period of time. I've also had quite a bit of success finding older editions of nursing textbooks at Goodwill, so that might be another good place for you to check.