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John Hopkins University: Bloomberg School of Public Health Open Courseware: University of Michigan Open Access Courseware: Open RN OER Textbooks
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- Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
- Creative Clinical Teaching In The Health Professions
- Field Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox
- Health Case Studies
- Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students
- Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know
- Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context
- Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness
- Active Healthy Lifestyles by OpenLearn (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Anatomy and Physiology by Betts, et al. (CC BY)
- The Complete Subjective Health Assessment
- Concepts of Fitness and Wellness by Flynn, et al. (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Critical Issues in Disaster Science and Management by Emergency Management Institute (PD)
- Drugs, Brains, and Behavior – The Science of Addiction by National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Disease 13th ed. by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PD)
- Handbook of eHealth Evaluation: An Evidence-based Approach
- Health is Everywhere: Unraveling the Mystery of Health by OpenLearn (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Human Anatomy Lab Manual
- Human Nutrition
- Integrated Safety, Health and Environmental Management: An Introduction by OpenLearn (CC BY-NC-SA)
- A Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology
- Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
- Nursing Skills
- Nursing Fundamentals
- Microbiology
- Medicines by Design
- Obesity: Balanced Diets and Treatment by OpenLearn (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Principles of Nutrition by Jellum, et al. (CC BY)
- Public Health by HealthKnowledge (Custom License)
- Provisional Prosthodontic Series, 2nd Edition
- Vaccination by OpenLearn (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan - 1st Canadian edition
- Nursing care at the End of Life
- Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
- Cultural Resources for Community Nursing
- Nursing Pharmacology
- Introduction to Communication in Nursing
- An Interprofessional Virtual Gaming Simulation: Breaking the Chain of Transmission
- Perspectives on Bias in Medicine
John Hopkins University: Bloomberg School of Public Health Open Courseware: University of Michigan Open Access Courseware: Open RN OER Textbooks
- Nursing Pharmacology (Published Fall 2020)View Online | Download Printable PDF
- Nursing Skills (Published May 2021)View Online | Download Printable PDF
- Nursing Fundamentals (Fall 2021)View Online
- CK-12 College Human Biology
- Medical Terminology
- English for Health Professions( terminology)
- Introduction to Medical Terminology
- International Classification of Function, Disability and Health
- Building a Medical Terminology Foundation
- Medical Terminology - Common Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots
- Understanding Medical Words
- International Classification of Function, Disability and Health
- The Aging Population
- A Global Perspective on Aging
- The Functionalist Perspective on Aging
- The Conflict Perspective on Aging
- The Symbolic-Interactionist Perspective on Aging
- Challenges of Aging
- The Experience of Illness
- Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness
- Social Epidemiology and Health
- Health Care in the U.S.
- Modern Issues in Health Care
- Socialization and Human Sexuality
- Lumen Open Educational Anataomy and Physiology Part 1
- Lumen Open Educational Anataomy and Physiology Part 2
- Video series: The Brain
- Video OER repository
- Video lectures on physics https://freevideolectures.com/subject/physics/
- Video lectures on Biology: https://freevideolectures.com/subject/biology/
- Video lectures on Medical Sciences: https://freevideolectures.com/subject/medicine/
- Video lectures on Anatomy Physiology: https://freevideolectures.com/subject/anatomy-physiology/
- Meal Assistance Virtual Gaming Simulation : This game promotes the application of knowledge and skills related to meal assistance of an individual diagnosed with dysphagia. In this game, you will assist Greta, a woman who is regaining her self-care abilities after having a stroke. You will need a foundational knowledge of nursing care related to meal assistance, including the signs and potential consequences of dysphagia, and strategies for ensuring that the person with dysphagia eats their meal safely. You will also use your assessment and communication skills. Before playing, you may want to review textbook content or class notes related to meal assistance and dysphagia.
- Game-based Nursing simulations: Several simulations available including ER visit, Labor and Delivery, Pre-Assessment, and much more!
- Virtual Healthcare Experience: https://de.ryerson.ca/games/nursing/hospital/index.html : This Virtual Healthcare Experience website has different virtual clinical experiences in the Virtual Gaming Simulation format. Each experience offers an interactive, experiential opportunity to build clinical reasoning by applying knowledge and practicing skills in a clinical practice setting. Throughout the experience users are provided immediate feedback to improve post operative clinical decision-making skills.
- Turbulent Sky: A 360o Disaster Management Virtual Simulation : https://etvlabs.com/TurbulentSky/ : This virtual disaster management community provides scenarios involving client/community/organizational issues focused on the disaster management process. The user experiences various areas within the mock disaster to discover information such as: managing a disaster, understanding the role of health care providers, working with other organizations, and practicing skills. The use of audio, video, quizzes, interviews and unfolding scenarios will assist the learner to apply disaster management principles to an actual disaster.
- Nursing Simulation Scenario Library: The Nursing Simulation Scenario Library is a resource for nursing educators in all settings and made possible by the generosity of the Healthcare Initiative Foundation. The library is being expanded through the support of the Nurse Support Program (NSPII) funded by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC).
- Pediatric Post-Operative Assessment: https://de.ryerson.ca/games/nursing/post-op/ The link provides a Virtual Gaming Simulation (VGS) related to a post operative pediatric experience. The VGS offers an interactive, experiential opportunity to apply knowledge and practice skills in a hospital setting. Throughout the VGS users are provided immediate feedback to improve post operative clinical decision-making skills.
- Community Home Visit- Mental Health Assessment: https://de.ryerson.ca/games/nursing/mental-health/ The link provides three on-line content modules related to therapeutic communication, mental health assessment, and interpersonal violence. A Virtual Gaming Simulation (VGS) offers an interactive, experiential opportunity to apply knowledge and practice skills in a home mental health assessment related to intimate partner violence. Throughout the VGS users are provided immediate feedback to improve therapeutic communication and a summary report at the end.
- Perinatal Nursing Care: https://de.ryerson.ca/games/nursing/maternity/ : The link provides learning modules and 3 Virtual Gaming Simulation (VGS) related to a perinatal nursing experience. The VGS offers an interactive, experiential opportunity to apply knowledge and practice skills in a hospital setting. Throughout the VGS users are provided immediate feedback to improve post operative clinical decision-making skills.
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