Which laptop to get for nursing?

HP makes good laptops and a lot cheaper than surface book or Mac. You are already going to spend a fortune on school why waste money on high priced laptop that you will most likely break or it will get stolen. One of the 2 is very likely. What you need is an i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 1 TB hard drive, 3 back up external hard drives. You will keep the 3 in separate places, one with your parents, if possible and you will constantly back up everything to them, they should all be copies of each other. So when your computer gets stolen or broken, you have all your data, computer is worthless, data is all important. As to the size of the computer that is up to you, I like 17.3" screen but they are HEAVY. You may want 13, 14 or 15 inch screen. Look at them for a while to see that the size is right for you. You can get a 15.6" HP with i5, 8GB RAM and 1 TB hard drive for 500. The 3 external hard drives, get 500GB ones for 50 bucks each. USB 3.0 ones. Don't keep stuff on the cloud. The cloud could disappear at any time and why show everyone on Earth your private information.

Wait and see if your school works mainly with Macs or Windows PCs. Most scientific fields (but not all) are Windows based. If you go for Windows, a real laptop with a number pad is more useful than a tablet, even if it has a keyboard.

Surface hands down