34 Nursing
Interprofessional Health Care Practice (SAI)
No suggested OER at this time.
Nursing (NSG)
Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care∗
Glynda Rees Doyle and Jodie Anita McCutcheon (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
2015, updated 2021
Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care – Thompson Rivers University Edition∗
Renée Anderson (Thompson Rivers University)
2018, updated 2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This open educational resource (OER) was developed to ensure best practice and quality care based on the latest evidence, and to address inconsistencies in how clinical health care skills are taught and practiced in the clinical setting. The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives, a brief overview of the relevant theory, checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process, and a summary of key takeaways. Key terms are set in bold throughout the book and laid out again in a Glossary in the appendix. All checklists, tables and videos are listed and hyperlinked in the appendices.
This book should be used in conjunction with existing courses in any health care program. This book is not intended to replace core resources in health care programs that provide comprehensive information concerning diseases and conditions. An understanding of medical terminology, human anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology is a required asset to use this book effectively. The development of technical skills is based on the knowledge of, practice to achieve proficiency in, and attitudes related to the skill, and an awareness of how our roles affect our patients and other health care professionals. This book contributes to enhancing safer care for patients by outlining evidence-based practices, and looking beyond just the technical skill to understanding the types of expertise and knowledge required to decrease adverse events.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Reviews for BCIT version: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus – eCampusOntario Open Library
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
NSG 3305 Practicum: Care of Adults Experiencing Illness
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
NSG 3323 Practicum: Community Health Nursing
NSG 4245 Practicum: Consolidation
Community Library: Nursing
Various Canadian colleges
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Series of healthcare learning scenarios developed by Canadian colleges and hosted on Affinity. Topics include: palliative care at home, medication administration and safety, functional assessment, and communication.
Note: Some scenarios are available in French.
Format: Online
Suggested as a general resource in Nursing
The Complete Subjective Health Assessment∗
Jennifer L. Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Michelle Hughes, Paul Petrie, Sherry Morrell, and Sita Mistry (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2019
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This textbook is designed for the novice learner who is seeking to develop a foundational understanding of the complete subjective health assessment in the context of health and illness. The textbook deconstructs the categories of the complete subjective health assessment, providing learners with explanations and examples of what constitutes relevant subjective data. This textbook provides an opportunity to learn how to respond to normal, abnormal, and critical findings when completing a complete subjective health assessment.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions∗
Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry (Athabasca University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)
For healthcare professionals, clinical education is foundational to the learning process. However, balancing safe patient care with supportive learning opportunities for students can be challenging for instructors and the complex social context of clinical learning environments makes intentional teaching approaches essential. Clinical instructors require advanced teaching knowledge and skills as learners are often carrying out interventions on real people in unpredictable environments.
Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions is an indispensable guide for educators in the health professions. Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the importance of personal philosophies, resilience, and professional socialization while evaluating the current practices in clinical learning environments from technology to assessment and evaluation. This book provides instructors with the tools to influence both student success and the quality of care provided by future practitioners.
Formats: Online (Manifold) and PDF
Reviews (Pressbooks version): Open Textbook Library – BCcampus – eCampusOntario Open Library
Suggested for:
NSG 6134 Educator’s Role in Advanced Nursing Practice
Cultural Resources for Community Nursing∗
Dolores McCreary (Pennsylvania State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Canada, the United States, and European nations are presently facing a migration crisis of a magnitude that has not been seen since the massive population displacements of the post–World War II era (Fleras, 2015). Due to the effects of globalization, economic policies, financial constraints, and forced migrations due to environmental or armed conflicts, nurses are providing health care to very diverse and sometimes vulnerable populations such as refugees and asylum seekers (Racine & Lu, 2015). On the other hand, globalization also brings increased ethnic and cultural diversity within health care organizations, which affects the way nurses deliver care and how they interact with nurses coming from other countries. More than ever, nurses must be culturally competent and culturally safe in their everyday practice regardless of the health settings in which they work.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 3123 Community Health Nursing
Diversity and Difference in Communication∗
OpenLearn Diversity & Difference in Communication (Open University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This text explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested as a general resource in Nursing
Documentation in Nursing: 1st Canadian Edition∗
Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Charlene Ronquillo, Michelle Hughes, and Joy Garmaise-Yee (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
This open-access textbook is intended to guide best practices of documentation in the nursing profession. This resource is designed for students in undergraduate nursing programs, and addresses principles of documentation, legislation associated with documentation, methods and systems of documentation, and key trends in the future of documentation. Incorporated into this resource is legislation and practice standards specific to the province of Ontario, Canada.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for:
NSG 2113 Introduction to Nursing Science
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
Exploring Indigenous Foods & Food Sovereignty
Stevie D. Jonathan, Katie Maracle, and Scott Wild (Six Nations Polytechnic)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)
This OER examines food sovereignty and food experiences in Haudenosaunee communities, to explore ways of upholding our Haudenosaunee responsibilities to the land and enhancing the local practice of food sovereignty. Research findings revealed that local education about food sovereignty, Indigenous foods, and practices must be achieved, to promote these concepts in the lives of Six Nations of the Grand River community members.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 3123 Community Health Nursing
NSG 3323 Practicum: Community Health Nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing Pharmacology: A Conceptual Approach – 1st Canadian Edition
Amanda Egert, Kimberly Lee, and Manu Gill (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
2023
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This textbook was designed specifically for the entry-level undergraduate nursing student in Canada. It is also applicable to other health disciplines for use. This textbook explores pharmacological concepts by showing the connections between pathophysiology, pharmacological principles, and common medication classes. This textbook also provides learning tools to improve the student’s retention with quizzes, videos, concept maps, drug cards, and is organized using a concept-based teaching approach.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: H5P activities, medication cards
Suggested for:
NSG 5380 Therapeutics in Primary Health Care I [as supplementary reading]
A Guide to Numeracy in Nursing
Julia Langham (Selkirk College)
2023
Licence: CC BY 4.0
A Guide to Numeracy in Nursing is a workbook for learning how to use and understand numbers in a nursing context. Chapters include subjects of basic math skills, unit conversions, medication math, interpreting lab values, and introductory statistics. Within each chapter, there is a main lesson followed by sample exercises and sets of practice questions.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: glossary, H5P activities
Suggested for:
NSG 2113 Introduction to Nursing Science
Gynecological Assessment∗
Katherine Trip and Jean Wilson (University of Toronto)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Health professional programs such as nursing and medicine have historically had difficulty securing assessment experiences such as gynecological examinations. Decreased availability of preceptors and increased transitions to virtual care has recently made learning associated with this important topic even more difficult to obtain. To help better prepare health care providers, we have developed four online gynecological assessment learning modules in combination with virtual knowledge checks that will help articulate an approach, demonstrate techniques of examination, identify and diagnose disorders, and develop an evidence-based plan.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
NSG 5370 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis I
NSG 5375 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis II
Health Assessment Guide for Nurses∗
Ching-Chuen Feng, Michelle Agostini, and Raquel Bertiz (Montgomery College)
2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Every nurse should competently perform health assessment. This competency involves a set of knowledge, skills and values. This guide is organized around information that prepares the student to perform health assessment while integrating knowledge of nursing, communication and the sciences. This resource will also serve as a guide to nurses providing patient care in various clinical settings. This guide utilizes various open educational resources, research and literature. It is also the authors’ intent for this open educational resource to be shared, modified and further improved by educators, students, nurses and various users.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and H5P
Suggested for:
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
Health Case Studies: Toward Closing the Healthcare Communication Gap∗
Glynda Rees, Rob Kruger, and Janet Morrison (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
2017, updated 2021
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. Associated with each case is a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational strategies and evaluation.
The case studies can be used online in a learning management system, in a classroom discussion, in a printed course pack or as part of a textbook created by the instructor. This flexibility is intentional and allows the educator to choose how best to convey the concepts presented in each case to the learner.
Because these case studies were primarily developed for an electronic healthcare system, they are based predominantly in an acute healthcare setting. Educators can augment each case study to include primary healthcare settings, outpatient clinics, assisted living environments, and other contexts as relevant.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Suggested for:
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 5370 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis I
NSG 5375 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis II
Health History Interview – Virtual Gaming Simulation∗
Jennifer Lapum, Michelle Hughes, Joy Garmaise-Yee, Sara Richie, Sherry Espin, Don Rose, Susana Neves-Silva, Oona St-Amant, and Anneke Rummens (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
This virtual gaming simulation is focused on performing a health history interview with a client moving into a retirement home for a three-week stay. As you play the game, you will be asked questions and you will need to choose the next best action to be taken. When you choose correctly, the video will continue to play on to the next decision point. If you choose the incorrect or not the best answer, you will receive feedback asking you to reflect on the answer you chose. You will then be given another opportunity to try again and choose the correct action that should be taken.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
Infection Prevention and Control Practices∗
Michelle Hughes and Kendra Allen (Centennial College)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The Infection Prevention and Control Practices learning activities is an open-access resource that was developed to complement infection prevention and control practice content learned in academia and clinical environments. The intended audience is novice healthcare students in undergraduate programs. Healthcare practitioners currently practicing may also find this resource valuable as a review on content and skills.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 3123 Community Health Nursing
Interpreting Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling for Health Professionals
Jennifer Lapum, Oona St. Amant, Wendy Garcia, Lisa Seto Nielsen, and Rezwana Rahman (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This textbook provides the novice learner with a foundational understanding of Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling. It highlights important considerations for future health professionals seeking to adopt the new food guide into their practice, including strategies towards healthy eating. This open textbook underscores a relational inquiry approach to inform discussions with clients about nutrition and healthy eating.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Suggested for:
NSG 3123 Community Health Nursing
NSG 3323 Practicum: Community Health Nursing
An Introduction to Anti-Racism for the Nursing Professional: A Focus on Anti-Black Racism
Nadia Prendergast (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2023
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
The resource includes four chapters. The first chapter focuses on providing a context to racism, anti-Black racism, the link between racism and intersectionality, and racism, health, and healthcare. The second chapter focuses on what it means to be Black. The third chapter focuses on the invisibility of Black nurses, and highlights Black, Indigenous, Asian, and racialized nurse leaders. The final chapter focuses on anti-racism and nursing communication.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Suggested for:
NSG 3127 Nursing Professionalism and Ethics
Introduction to Communication in Nursing∗
Edited by Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Michelle Hughes, and Joy Garmaise-Yee (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
This open-access textbook is intended to guide best practices in communication in the context of the nursing profession. The resource addresses communication theory, therapeutic communication and interviewing, and interprofessional communication as it relates to nursing. This resource is designed for students in undergraduate nursing programs.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
NSG 3305 Practicum: Care of Adults Experiencing Illness
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
NSG 3320 Mental Health Nursing
Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing∗
Edited by Joan Wagner (University of Regina)
2018
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles across Saskatchewan and Canada have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices are focused on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge required to empower them to meet the leadership challenges found within the incessantly changing Canadian health care environment.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 4134 Political and Economic Contexts of Health Care
NSG 6160 Policy, Political Action and Change in Health Care
Leadership for Nurses in Clinical Settings∗
Edited by Kirsten Woodend (Trent University), Manon Lemonde (Ontario Tech University), Janet McCabe (Ontario Tech University), and Catherine Thibeault (Trent University)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This is a 12-module graduate-level course to prepare nurses who are thinking of taking on leadership roles and for those who are already in those roles and would like to learn more about clinical nursing leadership and management.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 4134 Political and Economic Contexts of Health Care
NSG 5360 Roles and Responsibilities of the Nurse Practitioner
NSG 6160 Policy, Political Action and Change in Health Care
NSG 7103 Decision Making in Nursing
LGBTQ+ Healthcare: Your Guide to Building an Inclusive Practice∗
Selinda Berg, Scott Cowan, and Ashlyne O’Neil (University of Windsor)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The LGBTQ+ community is diverse. While L, G, B, T, and Q are usually tied together as a single homogeneous entity, each letter represents a wide range of people of different races, ethnicities, ages, socioeconomic statuses and identities (National LGBT Health Education Centre, 2019). Unfortunately, experiences of stigma and discrimination are a common theme that transcends across the entire LGBTQ+ community. While discrimination exists across the community, the manifestations of oppression and discrimination are not a singular occurrence or experience. One area in which there is a long history of discrimination and lack of awareness is within the health care sector.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: Cases, glossary, and interactive exercises
Suggested for:
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3323 Practicum: Community Health Nursing
Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students∗
Linda Frederiksen and Sue F. Phelps (Washington State University Vancouver)
2017
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This open textbook is designed for students in graduate-level nursing and education programs. From developing a research question to locating and evaluating sources to writing a sample literature review using appropriate publication guidelines, readers will be guided through the process.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
NSG 3301 Research in Nursing
A Long Goodbye: Ed and Mary’s Journey with Lewy Body Dementia∗
Adele Baldwin, Stephen Anderson, Michael Inskip, Kellie Johns, David Lindsay, Bronwyn Mathiesen, and Marie Bodak (James Cook University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)
This book, built around Ed’s journal, chronicles Ed’s experiences as a carer following his wife Mary’s diagnosis with Lewy body dementia. Students and experienced health professionals are rarely afforded such an insight into how their words and actions are interpreted by, and impact upon patients, families and friends. Ed’s Story provides information and education resources related to dementia care. Although specifically focusing on Lewy body dementia, the resources are transferable to caring for people with any type of dementia. The freely available resources are suitable for use by students in the health professions, educators, formal and informal carers.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Suggested as:
General resource in the Nursing Program
Maternity Series∗
Centennial College, George Brown College, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Scarborough Health Network
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
The Maternity Series is an open educational resource (OER) containing four units and three simulation games (“games”) on the essentials of maternal and newborn nursing assessment and care: Prenatal Nursing Care, Labour and Delivery Nursing Care, Postpartum Nursing Care, and Newborn Care.
Learners can test their retention of knowledge from each unit by practicing their skills in a safe environment by playing a simulation game. (Note: The game for the Postpartum and Newborn units are combined into one game).
Note: Prenatal Nursing Care, Labour and Delivery Nursing Care, and Postpartum Nursing Care games are also available in French.
Format: Online
Suggested for:
NSG 3111 Care of the Childbearing Family
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
Multi-Course Case Studies in Health Sciences∗
Laura Banks, Brenda Barth, Robert Balogh, Adam Cole, Mika Nonoyama, Elita Partosoedarso and Otto Sanchez (Ontario Tech University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Series of ten (10) interconnected, multidisciplinary cases exploring health and disease across the lifespan in an extended family living in Canada. These cases have been designed for use in multiple undergraduate courses to facilitate scaffolding of student knowledge with increasingly complex case analyses. This novel approach may enable students to apply critical knowledge from a biological, behavioural and sociological perspective into unified clinical situations. As students review the cases, several perspectives should be considered, including: biological, behavioural and sociological.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 4330 Complex Nursing Care
Northern and Indigenous Health and Healthcare∗
Heather Exner-Pirot, Bente Norbye, and Lorna Butler (University of Saskatchewan)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
The provision of northern health care entails many unique challenges and circumstances that are rarely represented in mainstream health sciences education. This OpenEd Resource provides accessible content on health and health care from a northern perspective for the growing number of health professionals being educated in northern communities.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Suggested for:
NSG 3123 Community Health Nursing
NSG 3323 Practicum: Community Health Nursing
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know∗
Susan E. Lowey (SUNY Brockport)
2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know addresses an essential component of the basic educational preparation for the professional registered nurse student. Recent studies show that only one in four nurses feel confident in caring for dying patients and their families and less than 2% of overall content in nursing textbooks are related to end-of-life care. Despite the tremendous growth in palliative and end-of-life care programs across the country, very few nursing education programs provide adequate education on this topic for future nurses. The purpose of this textbook is to provide an in-depth look at death and dying in this country and explore the vital role of the nurse in assisting patients and families along the journey towards the end of life. There is an emphasis throughout the book on the simple, yet understated value of effective interpersonal communication between the patient and clinician. The text provides a basic foundation for understanding death and dying, including a brief historical examination of some main conceptual models associated with how patients cope with impending loss. An overview of illness trajectories and models of care, such as hospice and palliative care, are discussed. Lastly, the latest evidence-based approaches for pain and symptom management, ethical concerns, cultural considerations, care at the time of death, and bereavement are examined. The goal of this text is to foster the necessary skills for nurses to provide compassionate care to individuals who are nearing the end of life and families who are experiencing the loss of a loved one. Every chapter contains a “What You Should Know” section which highlights and reinforces the main message nurses should know when caring for their patient.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB and PDF
Reviews: BCcampus – Open Textbook Library – eCampusOntario Open Library
Suggested for:
NSG 6133 Decision Making in Clinical Practice
NSG 6135 End of Life Care: Palliative
Nursing Virtual Case Studies∗
Adrianna D’Ilio and Amanda Egert (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
2023
Licence: CC BY 4.0
These learner-paced, interactive virtual branching case studies aim to help learners develop their noticing and clinical judgment skills. Each case study is designed to work with a specific level of learner (novice to advanced) and uses a variety of resources to help learners prepare for the experience and reflect on their actions. Concepts of patient-centered care, communication, safety and health and illness are used to demonstrate how care is provided in a variety of health care settings across the lifespan (community and acute care).
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and H5P
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 4330 Complex Nursing Care
OPEN RN
Project aiming to create five open textbooks in nursing and 25 virtual reality scenarios. Led by Chippewa Valley Technica College, part of the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) consortium.
Among the resources available:
Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman (Chippewa Valley Technical College)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This book introduces the entry-level nursing student to the scope of nursing practice, various communication techniques, and caring for diverse patients. The nursing process is used as a framework for providing patient care based on the following nursing concepts: safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, and elimination. Care for patients with integumentary disorders and cognitive or sensory impairments is also discussed. Learning activities have been incorporated into each chapter to encourage students to use critical thinking while applying content to patient care situations.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice [esp. sections 3 and 19]
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
Nursing Management and Professional Concepts
Chippewa Valley Technical College
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This book introduces concepts related to nursing leadership and management, prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal implications of nursing practice, ethical nursing practice, collaboration within the interprofessional team, health care economics, quality and evidence-based practice, advocacy, preparation for the RN role, and the avoidance of burnout with self-care. Several online, interactive learning activities are included in each chapter that encourage application of content to patient-care situations. Additionally, the Appendix includes a “suite of patients” with suggested prompts for classroom discussion to assist students in applying concepts from the book to real patient-care situations.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
NSG 3127 Nursing Professionalism and Ethics
Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts
Chippewa Valley Technical College
2022
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This textbook is an open educational resource with CC-BY licensing developed specifically for prelicensure nursing students. Mental health and community health concepts are discussed while emphasizing stress management techniques, healthy coping strategies, referrals to community resources, and other preventative interventions. Nursing care for individuals with specific mental health and substance use disorders is examined, and the nurse’s role in community health needs assessments and caring for vulnerable populations is introduced.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
NSG 3320 Mental Health Nursing
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
Chippewa Valley Technical College
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This open-access Nursing Pharmacology textbook is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes. This book is not intended to be used as a drug reference book, but direct links are provided to DailyMed, which provides trustworthy information about marketed drugs in the United States.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
NSG 5380 Therapeutics in Primary Health Care I [as supplementary reading]
Nursing Skills∗
Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman (Chippewa Valley Technical College)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This open-access Nursing Skills textbook includes physical assessments routinely performed by entry-level registered nurses and basic nursing skills performed by licensed practical nurses.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 3305 Practicum: Care of Adults Experiencing Illness
Post-Op Pediatric Clinical Simulation∗
Centennial College, George Brown College, and Toronto Metropolitan University
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
The Post-Op Pediatric Clinical Simulation Game is an open educational resource (OER) containing a simulation game on the essentials of pediatric post-operative care.
Learners can test their knowledge related to post-operative care of a pediatric patient and practice their skills by playing the virtual gaming simulation. The game replicates real-life clinical situations whereby learners have unlimited attempts to practice their skills.
Learners will collect assessment data, choose from a variety of interventions, and experience the consequences of their decisions in a safe environment.
Throughout the game, feedback and rationales are provided to enhance learning. Furthermore, at the end of the game, learners are provided with a summary statement that synthesizes their clinical decisions and offers the basis for forming an individualized learning plan. For optimal learning, a debrief should be conducted after the game. The debrief can consist of a written self-debrief, a facilitated synchronous virtual debrief, or an in-person debrief.
Learners: The Post-Op Pediatric Clinical Simulation Game is tailored for undergraduate-level nursing students. Other learners who can benefit from this resource include: nurses preparing for their certification exam, practicing nurses who would like to review these skills, and healthcare providers involved in pediatric or post-operative care.
Instructors: This resource is a learning tool to facilitate and promote the application of knowledge related to pediatric post-operative nursing care. It can be used as an in-class activity or an individual student assignment. It is important to review the learning outcomes to ensure students have the foundational knowledge to play the game. A pre-brief related to the content and the game is an important aspect of preparing the student for playing the game. It is important to include a debrief after the game is completed to optimize the learning.
Format: Online
Suggested for:
NSG 3107 Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
Also as a refresher on infection control in:
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
NSG 3305 Practicum: Care of Adults Experiencing Illness
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
NSG 3323 Practicum: Community Health Nursing
NSG 4330 Complex Nursing Care
Safe Pharmacy Simulation∗
Pat Marten-Daniel, Paula Mastrilli, Darshnee Ramnaraign, and Sheila Mae Sia (George Brown College)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The Safe Pharmacy Simulation game is an open educational resource (OER) developed by a team of interprofessional educators to promote employment integration of internationally educated health professionals by building their work readiness skills. It provides learners of any profession working in a medication dispensing setting with opportunities to develop and apply safety-focused best practices for processing and dispensing medications.
Game players are invited to make decisions in a realistic work situation and encouraged to try different approaches. Feedback is provided to promote analysis of players’ actions and decisions. Players are encouraged to self-reflect and debrief at the end of the game to further enhance their learning. This resource is also available in French.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and H5P
Suggested as:
General resource in the Nursing Program
The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education: 1st Canadian Education∗
Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Michelle Hughes, Andy Tan, Arina Bogdan, Frances Dimaranan, Rachel Frantzke, and Nada Savicevic (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2019
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This open-access textbook is intended to guide best practices in the journey of scholarly writing in the context of the nursing profession. This resource is designed for students in undergraduate nursing programs and may also be useful for students in other health-related post-secondary programs, graduate students, and healthcare providers.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, MOBI, and EPUB
Suggested for:
NSG 3301 Research in Nursing
NSG 5140 Research Methods in Nursing
Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness∗
Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (Athabasca University)
2015
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This multidisciplinary resource develops topics of interest to all those who care about and for individuals with co-occurring intellectual disabilities and mental illness. Each chapter presents current evidence-informed practice knowledge. Each topic is also presented with audio-enabled text boxes emphasizing ‘Key Points for Caregivers.’ For those who are interested in background knowledge, we provided the comprehensive literature base. And, for those interested mainly in ‘what to do,’ we provided text box summaries for reading and listening.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Reviews: BCcampus – Open Textbook Library – eCampusOntario Open Library
Suggested for:
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
NSG 3320 Mental Health Nursing
Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Administrators
Kimberlee Carter (Conestoga College), Marie Rutherford (Georgian College), and Connie Stevens (Sheridan College)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
These resources are intended for learners preparing for positions in front-line health care settings. Recognizing the diverse titles for these types of roles, we intend that the title Health Care Administrator is an umbrella term that includes all types of front-line Health Care Administrators. This OER is intended to be used with the companion resource Therapeutic Communications for Health Care Administrators Game Simulations.
Health Care Administrators are often the first point of contact for clients and their families and often are the liaison between the health care providers, and the client; thus, therapeutic communication is an essential competency. An environmental scan was sent to industry partners and colleagues in the Ontario higher education system in Spring 2020. Based on those results, it was identified that many existing resources do not address the communication skills of the health care administrator role. The digital text and companion game simulations address the gaps while also providing essential digital resources that can be used in remote, hybrid, or face-to-face delivery formats.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
NSG 3305 Practicum: Care of Adults Experiencing Illness
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
NSG 3320 Mental Health Nursing
Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Administrators Game Simulations
Kimberlee Carter (Conestoga College), Marie Rutherford (Georgian College), and Connie Stevens (Sheridan College)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
These resources are intended for learners preparing for positions in front-line health care settings. Recognizing the diverse titles for these types of roles, we intend that the title Health Care Administrator is an umbrella term that includes all types of front-line Health Care Administrators. These OER are intended to be used as companion resources to, the digital text Health Care Communication for Health Care Administrators.
Health Care Administrators are often the first point of contact for clients and their families and often are the liaison between the health care providers, and the client; thus, therapeutic communication is an essential competency. An environmental scan was sent to industry partners and colleagues in the Ontario higher education system in Spring 2020. Based on those results, it was identified that many existing resources do not address the communication skills of the health care administrator role. The game simulations and associated digital text address the gaps while also providing essential digital resources that can be used in remote, hybrid, or face-to-face delivery formats.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
NSG 3305 Practicum: Care of Adults Experiencing Illness
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
NSG 3320 Mental Health Nursing
Toward a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice – Third Edition
Rosalie Starzomski, Janet L. Storch, and Patricia Rodney (University of Victoria)
2023
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This third edition of Toward a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice will assist nurses and all health care providers to take up the challenge of embedding ethics in health care practice, education, research, and policy at all levels—from local to regional to global.
Format: PDF
Includes: videos
Suggested for:
NSG 3127 Nursing Professionalism and Ethics
Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals – 1st Canadian Edition∗
Oona St-Amant, Jennifer Lapum, and Vinita Dubey (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This open-access textbook is intended to guide best practices in vaccine delivery in Canada. This resource is designed for students in post-secondary health profession programs, including nursing. It may also be useful for graduate students and healthcare providers. This textbook provides information related to clinical practice, including the administration of vaccine, and communication with clients.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 3323 Practicum: Community Health Nursing
Virtual Healthcare Experience
Centennial College, George Brown College, Toronto Metropolitan University, and The Chang School
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Collection of simulation games covering the following areas of healthcare: Emergency, Gerontology, Pediatrics, Medical-Surgical, Maternal and Child, and Mental Health.
Format: Online
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 3137 Practicum: Mental Health
NSG 3305 Practicum: Care of Adults Experiencing Illness
NSG 3307 Practicum: Family-Centered Care of Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
NSG 3311 Practicum: Childbearing Family
NSG 3320 Mental Health Nursing
Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan – 2nd Canadian Edition∗
Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, Oona St-Amant, and Andy Tan (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media and interactive approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Reviews: BCcampus
Suggested for:
NSG 2313 Introduction to Nursing Practice
NSG 2317 Health Assessment
NSG 4245 Practicum: Consolidation