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The grant I worked on, Rx Tennessee, dealt exclusively with healthcare related material. All of Roane State Community College's grant materials can be found on Skills Commons: https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=Roane+State+
The first link that I previously sent out was very vague and didn’t narrow down the search results. Here are more specific links:
A Prescription for Training Healthcare Workers in Tennessee (RxTN):http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/399
Direct link to RxTN Learning Resources Collections: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/400
Direct link to RxTN Program Support Materials Collection: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/931
We have many useful modules including Transitions to Nursing, Pharmacology for Nursing, Phlebotomy, and a Nursing Academic Bootcamp which features a variety of modules designed to help students with medical terminology and other study skills. There's lots to choose from and I tried my best to make them as accessible as possible. These materials have worked well at our institution. I hope they can be just as useful to you.
One other resource - Carnegie Mellon OLI has a Healthcare IT Foundations course that is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA. I really like this resource because, beyond IT, it covers a range of topics that are covered in many courses like healthcare organizations, professional behaviors, and information privacy. Given the open licensing, it is easy to remix into any course.
https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=df3dcb930a0001dc00a4a5e2746e42b4
shorter duration and the ability for the students to go right into the workforce.
As I mentioned earlier, among the learning materials are medical terminology modules and a nursing math module.
I am searching for nursing OER, more specifically for a perioperative course (surgery). Is anyone familiar with this niche or can guide me to modules, journal articles, text, etc.
This may not be the topics that are needed – but it is very well done: https://www.openpediatrics.org/collection/simulators
Also, Open SUNY has an open textbook on Nursing care at end of life which might be more related to your question earlier this week.
https://textbooks.opensuny.org/nursing-care-at-the-end-of-life/
Chapter 13 of the Introduction to Sociology is on aging and the elderly — this is the Canadian version but believe it was adapted from the OpenStax book of the same name.
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter13-aging-and-the-elderly/
Also, here is a philosophy course on death from Open Yale University. Course notes and videos are generally open but sometimes journal articles and other resources are not so best to confirm those details when re-using.
http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-176
I am assisting a faculty member in locating oer for dosage or clinical calculations for nurses - for context it is for pre-licensure nursing.
Have you checked out the OpenRN Nursing Pharmacology textbook? https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/pharmacology/
An OER Commons search turned up a few likely options: https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=dosage&f.general_subject=&f.sublevel=&f.alignment_standard=
There are also some results in the Skills Commons database, but I find the results often confusing: http://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=dosage
Our Director of Nursing is looking for OER material on advanced nursing, advanced population health, and healthcare informatics for her graduate program and I'm having a hard time locating resources other than medical terminology. Does anyone have a listing that would be helpful?
I know this may not help I am interested in this being complete, and hopefully if it's successful they will do more.
https://www.cvtc.edu/landing-pages/grants/open-rn
We are starting a new standalone PN to RN bridge.
The faculty are looking to see if there is anything to help practical nurses review practical nursing content before they begin
the more advanced nursing content in the RN program.
For example, before starting the cardiac content in the RN program,
we'd like students to have a resource that includes the more fundamental cardiac content covered
in a practical nursing program.
I liked this site. I saw some of it before it went onto the subscription plan.
But $10 for lifetime access is very reasonable, and there is a 30-day free trial.
Learning Nurse
https://www.learningnurse.org/index.php
It’s Canadian-based, but the parts specific to Canada seem to be well-labeled (e.g. e-LearningàLPN Ethics Course).
We have nursing faculty that would like to put together a nursing study guide for students to use as a quick reference throughout the program.
We have found some resources but any help locating available OER that could help with this is appreciated!
They are hoping to get this put together by mid-January (yikes!) so anything and everything helps!
This is the description provided by the nursing faculty working on the project:
Description:
Nursing study guide supports RN students in mastering medical terminology, nursing concepts, and clinical reasoning through plain language
and concrete examples. The use of clear, accessible language helps English Learners (EL) and students new to medical vocabulary connect
complex terms to real-world meanings (for example, “hypertension” = “high blood pressure”). The guide features visual diagrams, concept maps,
and step-by-step examples of nursing care plans that link pathophysiology, assessment findings, and nursing interventions.
Organized by body system, it builds confidence in reading, writing, and speaking medical language while strengthening critical thinking, documentation,
and NCLEX preparation.
I wonder if you would be able to pull from the following resources.
There are H5P sets of medical terms (by body system) broken into word parts and also pronounced in the digital textbook.
Building a Medical Terminology Foundation 2e – Simple Book Publishing
Building a Medical Terminology 2e – Student Companion Workbook – Simple Book Publishing
Building a Medical Terminology Foundation 2e: Anatomical Colouring Book
Texas Higher Board of Education in collaboration with OpenStax funded a suite of OER nursing materials. Could their collection be helpful?
https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/hubs/ONE-nursing
Hi Ann and Heather! OpenStax, in collaboration with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB),
released an 8-textbook nursing collection. All 8 books are free online, peer-reviewed, and OER.
Clinical Nursing Skills
Fundamentals of Nursing
Maternal-Newborn Nursing
Medical-Surgical Nursing
Nutrition for Nurses
Population Health for Nurses
Pharmacology for Nurses
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
All books are available here: https://openstax.org/subjects/nursing
Additionally, all of these books come with free instructor and student resources.
The resources vary by book but include items like test banks, PowerPoint slides, skills checklists, and answer guides.
I'm hoping to find relevant OER to recommend for 12 nursing courses for a new bachelors-level program in Oregon. I'll list the course names here, and more details are available at BSN 26-27 Recommended OER for Evaluation. I'll share back a roundup of responses.
- Transitions to Professional Nursing
- Concepts of Nursing Theory
- Global Health Promotion and Community Health
- Informatics in Healthcare
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Issues and Trends in Professional Nursing
- Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, & Physical Assessment (3Ps) in Professional Nursing Practice
- Nursing Leadership
- Capstone Didactic
- Capstone Clinical – Administration & Management
- Capstone Clinical - Palliative Care
- Capstone Clinical – Underserved & Vulnerable Populations
Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing Practice by Dr. Michael Aldridge from the University of Northern Colorado could be a good option for the Nursing Leadership course.
https://www.saskoer.ca/
The link above is a peer-reviewed multi-authored book edited by Dr. Joan Wagner. Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing.
Gerontology
My dean needs me to teach an Introduction to Gerontology course (community college certificate) and I need to get any materials, textbooks, videos, etc. ASAP. I would really like to use OER (or other low cost options). Please help : )
One OR college faculty member is teaching gerontology with library resources as course materials: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=grn
Your library may already have access to these texts, or it may be feasible to purchase a multiple simultaneous user license - I recommend checking with a librarian :)
Good Friday afternoon everyone. I have a nursing instructor who is looking to replace a commercial textbook currently used for a course in Gerontology.
Her colleagues are using Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging by Touhy, Jett, Boscart, and McCleary, while students have found Gerontological Nursing Competencies For Care (4th Edition) by Mauk more useful. She would prefer that her students not have to buy a textbook. Does anyone know of any good existing OER that might replace the textbook?
If not, she had expressed interest that such a book should be created (big dreams).
In MERLOT, we have one OER book on gerontology:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=1115588
I also found this link to top 25 Gerontology resources:
http://guides.lib.uw.edu/hsl/apnger/top25
On aging, I found a course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-342-the-biology-of-aging-age-related-diseases-and-interventions-fall-2011/
A short book: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=514091
There are also numerous other resources that they could look through on aging:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=aging&sort.property=relevance
Medical Terminology
I'm looking for suggestions of open (or free) medical terminology pronunciation guides. So far the closest we've come is this: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/pronunciations#
Kiri Dali knows what is on knowledgetowork.com - I don’t have computer access to check!
Wisc-Online has several OER on learning medical terminology, including a couple focused on pronunciation:
- Medical Terminology Jukebox
- Medical Terminology Pronunciation Jukebox
A couple other resources that might be helpful:
- MedLinePlus has a tutorial for learning medical terms that includes pronunciation.
- Merriam Webster also has a medical dictionary that includes pronunciation of the terms.
Medical Surgical Nursing
I'm on the lookout for a recently updated OER Medical Surgical Nursing Textbook for our nursing faculty.
I've searched the major repositories but haven't had much luck. Does anyone happen to know where I might find one? Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
OpenStax has an entire Nursing series in development, including Medical-Surgical Nursing!
Another excellent Nursing OER collection is Open RN & Next Gen RN.
As Aloha mentioned, OpenStax is publishing a Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook as part of the OER Nursing Essentials (ONE) Project in collaboration with
the the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The draft pdf of the textbook can be found on the nursing hub:
https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/hubs/ONE-nursing
The hub also links to collaborative groups for each text in the series, if you'd like to stay up to date on the publication and connect with others using the book.
The ONE Summit was held at the end of February and featured presentations from several of the textbook authors, including the authors of the Medical-Surgical Nursing text.
You can view the full summit recordings from the OpenStax ONE Summit YouTube playlist.
Mental Health and Obstetrics
I’m helping nursing faculty locate an open textbook in mental health and obstetrics. I’ve found one that focuses on obstetrics, but I don’t know if it’s a good fit. Can anyone suggest an open textbook or other resources for mental health and obstetrics?
Wonder if there might be anything from the Open RN project?
https://www.cvtc.edu/landing-pages/grants/open-rn
Newborn Pictures
I am looking for open source images for Nursing Department, specifically on newborn assessment images or illustrations. Does anyone know of a source?
Some of the places where I find the best pictures.
General pictures:
https://pixabay.com/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.flickr.com/
Medical pictures (since this is for nursing):
https://images.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/Home.aspx
https://phil.cdc.gov/phil/
The government sources and pixabay are all (or nearly all) PD. Wikimedia is all open & free, but there are a few different CC & GNU licenses used, so you need to check. Flickr has a lot that are open & free; but I think that one also has other license, so check each image (this is my least favorite in the list but sometimes is useful).
Beside the search box from Creative Commons: https://search.creativecommons.org
I have also made a list for our lecturers with websites with CC license pictures, you can find it on our website under free materials: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/library/theme-portals/copyright/copyright/copyright-rules-for-images/
Our new library website is just released and it may have some errors for instance: Free materials (CC 0 license) that is not correct. It is not only CC 0 you will find all sort of CC licens
Open RN
Have any of you had experience, or have looked into XanEdu's Open RN resources/platform?
I have a nursing faculty who has received promotional emails from them, and I wondered if anyone has thoughts to share.
I will check into it, too. I have doubts about "OER" from publishing companies.
If you are interested in more information about the Open RN project and the five nursing textbooks developed with funding from a Department of Education grant,
please go to our Open RN website. As Una referenced, we are publishing five nursing e-books with CC-BY licensing (with free downloadable versions available),
as well as creating 25 virtual simulations. The Nursing Pharmacology e-book was published in Pressbooks in June 2020. The Nursing Skills e-book
will be published in Pressbooks by May 1, and the Nursing Fundamentals book will undergo peer review in May and will be published by July 2021.
XanEdu is publishing affordable print versions of the Open RN textbooks in soft cover format that can be purchased on Amazon or ordered by college bookstores.
They have also developed course resources available for purchase but are not a part of the grant project.
Feel free to register on the Open RN website for more information about our nursing OER.
Surgical NursingI worked on a grant which provided some learning materials for the role of the surgical technologist: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/7768
I don’t know if you would be able to adapt any of these study guides to suit your needs. Perhaps, these materials could be useful or could compliment any textbook that you find.
Here is the site from Central California's TAACCCT grant.
www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/44
You may need to copy and paste the link instead of clicking on it.
I have a super-duper special course with a fantastic faculty person who is on top of her content research and QM.
She specifically asked for OERs that are accessible, which means I have a professional crush on her.
(Honestly, I'd clone her work ethic and perspective to become a billionaire ID by selling it.)
Her course has both a didactic element that is in Canvas delivered through asynchronous and synchronous web-based meetings
and also an onsite experience in actual surgical rooms.
They have a simulation day that makes them demonstrate procedures in person prior to their onsite.
Student's aren't even allowed to go onsite without passing this day. Therefore, we want to mimic experiences prior to their sim day,
so we want to locate video demonstrations, audio explanations, infographics with precise steps, interactives, CYOA - just anything that
engages their body-based learning. We want to do it legally and accessibly.
OpenStax recently released an 8-textbook nursing series. All of the titles in the series are available for free online, peer-reviewed,
and openly licensed. Each of these OER textbooks is aligned with the AACN Essentials and offers next-gen NCLEX preparation support.
You can access the nursing textbook series here.
I believe that the Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook would be a great fit for your fantastic faculty person! :)
Tomography
I know this may be a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone knows of OER for an Introduction to Computed Tomography Principles, Patient Care, Sectional Anatomy, and Procedures course.
I’m working with some very open-minded professors who wish to reduce their students’ textbook costs. Here is a list of course topics:
Basic Principles of Computed Tomography
Computed Tomography Fundamentals
Computed Tomography Equipment and Instrumentation
Computed Tomography Data Acquisition
Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction
Computed Tomography Image Processing
Computed Tomography Patient Care
Computed Tomography Patient Safety
Computed Tomography Neuroimaging
Cross-Sectional Anatomy
Computed Tomography Procedures
Computed Tomography Protocols
This isn't a complete replacement by any means, but a SUNY faculty member just brought this to my attention: National Cancer Institute's SEER Training Modules
It does seem to have case studies that include tomography analysis.