Best nursing reference books according to redditors

Good idea. Like I said to the other poster, I think Saunders is much too easy. Even the priority questions are very obvious. I really liked the Lippincott book. Their questions were harder and helped me more. Lippincott also has a questions book with ALL alternative format questions.

Personally, I just read my instructor's power point to get an overview, and then read the textbook. Sometimes I'd take notes on the powerpoints, because then I didn't have to write as much since there's already a skeleton outline.

THEN practice question. I'd do tons, like 200-500 per chapter. I bought a lot of extra resources. Chiefly I'd go to Lippincott's Q&A (I guess there's a newer one out now). This had the most consistent quality of questions. Then I'd use whatever Success Series book paired with the class [1]. These two together would cover a large breadth of disorders, individually each one would skip some diseases. I'd save Saunders for last if I wanted more questions, because too many of them were ridiculously easy.

I'm using Saunders and Kaplan. I also suggest Lippincott's Q&A:
http://www.amazon.com/Lippincotts-Review-NCLEX-RN-Nclex-Rn/dp/1608311252/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Is this the Hurst Review you're talking about?

http://www.amazon.com/Hurst-Reviews-NCLEX-RN-Review-Marlene/dp/0071484310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421560732&sr=8-1&keywords=hurst+review+nclex#customerReviews

\> how do i think like a nurse to get these damn questions right?

First of all, that question has nothing to do with being a nurse and is 100% bogus, so don't get down on yourself.

Secondly, when I started studying for my NCLEX, I got a prioritization and delegation book (it's been a while, but something like this or this) and it helped me learn the "logic" (if it can be called that) behind the questions. Most of my professors would pull from NCLEX question banks, so usually I'd be able to apply the stuff from the books to the questions.