Nursing (ADN) Degree Information

Program Textbooks & Materials Requirements

Level I Required Text and Internet Requirements: The following products are required and must be purchased from the PCCUA Bookstore:
  • ATI Testing and Remediation Package (charge incurred each semester)
  • ADN Skills Equipment Bag (charge incurred each fall semester)
  • Shadow Health (charge incurred 1st and 2nd semester)
  • Health Assessment (1st semester)
  • Mental Health (2nd semester)
  • Leadership (2nd semester)
  • NurseAchieve (3rd semester)
  • ExamSoft (2nd and 4th semester)

The PCCUA Department of Nursing relies on the use of computer technologies for student learning activities using the Internet. All students are required to have Internet access. Students should refer to the PCCUA Student Handbook, the College Catalog, and/or the ADN Student Handbook for supported Internet browsers. 

Browsers for PC
  • Google Chrome: 114.0
  • MozillaFirefox: 115.0 
  • Safari: Not Supported
  • Microsoft Edge: 114.0
Browsers for Mac
  • Mozilla Firefox: 115.0
  • Microsoft Edge: 114.0
  • Google Chrome: 114.0
  • Safari: 16.0
Nursing (ADN) Textbooks
Title Author ISBN #
Fundamentals of Nursing, 11th ed. Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall 9780323810340
Maternal Child Nursing, 7th ed. Perry, Hockenberry, Cashion, Alden, Olshansky, & Lowdermilk 9780323776714
Prioritization, Delegation & Assignment, 5th ed. LaCharity, Kumagai, & Bartz 9780323683166
Clinical Reasoning Cases in Nursing, 8th ed. Harding & Snyder 9780323831734
Strategies, Techniques, Approaches to Critical Thinking, 7th ed. Castillo 9780323661263
Lewis's Medical-Surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems, 12th ed. Harding, Kwong & Hagler 9780323789615
Varcarolis’ foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing: A clinical approach, 9th ed. Halter 9780323697071
Mosby’s 2024 Nursing Drug Reference, 38th ed. Skidmore-Roth 9780443122002