Nursing
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- 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.
- Front Matter
- 1: Scope of Practice
- 2: Communication
- 3: Diverse Patients
- 4: Nursing Process
- 5: Safety
- 6: Cognitive Impairments
- 7: Sensory Impairments
- 8: Oxygenation
- 9: Infection
- 10: Integumentary
- 11: Comfort
- 12: Sleep and Rest
- 13: Mobility
- 14: Nutrition
- 15: Fluids and Electrolytes
- 16: Elimination
- 17: Grief and Loss
- 18: Spirituality
- 19: Care of the Older Adult
- 20: Answer Key
- Back Matter
- Nursing Skills (OpenRN)
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- Front Matter
- 1: General Survey
- 2: Health History
- 3: Blood Pressure
- 4: Aseptic Technique
- 5: Math Calculations
- 6: Neurological Assessment
- 7: Head and Neck Assessment
- 8: Eye and Ear Assessment
- 9: Cardiovascular Assessment
- 10: Respiratory Assessment
- 11: Oxygen Therapy
- 12: Abdominal Assessment
- 13: Musculoskeletal Assessment
- 14: Integumentary Assessment
- 15: Administration of Enteral Medications
- 16: Administration of Medications Via Other Routes
- 17: Enteral Tube Management
- 18: Administration of Parenteral Medications
- 19: Specimen Collection
- 20: Wound Care
- 21: Facilitation of Elimination
- 22: Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning
- 23: IV Therapy Management
- 24: Answer Keys
- Back Matter
- Nursing Pharmacology (OpenRN)
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- Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts (OpenRN)
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- Front Matter
- 1: Foundational Mental Health Concepts
- 2: Therapeutic Communication and the Nurse-Client Relationship
- 3: Stress, Coping, and Crisis Intervention
- 4: Application of the Nursing Process to Mental Health Care
- 5: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Mental Health Care
- 6: Psychotropic Medications
- 7: Depressive Disorders
- 8: Bipolar Disorders
- 9: Anxiety Disorders
- 10: Personality Disorders
- 11: Psychosis and Schizophrenia
- 12: Childhood and Adolescence Disorders
- 13: Eating Disorders
- 14: Substance Use Disorders
- 15: Trauma Abuse and Violence
- 16: Community Assessment
- 17: Vulnerable Populations
- 18: Environmental Health and Emergency Preparedness
- 19: Answer Key
- Back Matter
- Nursing Management and Professional Concepts (OpenRN)
- 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.
- Front Matter
- 1: Overview of Management and Professional Issues
- 2: Prioritization
- 3: Delegation and Supervision
- 4: Leadership and Management
- 5: Legal Implications
- 6: Ethical Practice
- 7: Collaboration Within the Interprofessional Team
- 8: Health Care Economics
- 9: Quality and Evidence-Based Practice
- 10: Advocacy
- 11: Preparation for the RN Role
- 12: Burnout and Self-Care
- 13: Answer Keys
- Back Matter
- Nursing Assistant (Reuter)
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- Front Matter
- 1: Communicate Professionally Within a Health Care Setting
- 2: Demonstrate Professionalism in the Workplace
- 3: Maintain a Safe Health Care Environment
- 4: Adhere to Principles of Infection Control
- 5: Provide for Personal Care Needs of Clients
- 6: Provide for Basic Nursing Care Needs
- 7: Demonstrate Reporting and Documentation of Client Data
- 8: Utilize Principles of Mobility to Assist Clients
- 9: Promote Independence Through Rehabilitation/Restorative Care
- 10: Provide Care for Clients Experiencing Acute and Chronic Health Conditions
- 11: Apply Knowledge of Body Systems to Client Care
- Back Matter
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- Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care (Doyle and McCutcheon)
- 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.
- Health Case Studies (Rees, Kruger, and Morrison)
- 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.
- Front Matter
- 1: Prologue
- 2: Case Study #1- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- 3: Case Study #2- Pneumonia
- 4: Case Study #3- Unstable Angina (UA)
- 5: Case Study #4- Heart Failure (HF)
- 6: Case Study #5- Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC)
- 7: Case Study #6- Sepsis
- 8: Case Study #7- Colon Cancer
- 9: Case Study #8- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Back Matter
- Public Health Ethics - Cases Spanning the Globe (Barrett, Dawson, Ortmann)
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- Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing (Wagner)
- 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 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 health c
- Front Matter
- 1: Identifying Your Leadership Strengths and Opportunities for Growth
- 2: Diversity in Health Care Organizations
- 3: Working with Indigenous Leadership and Indigenous Environments
- 4: The Role of Nurse Leaders in the Development of the Canadian Health Care System
- 5: Providing Nursing Leadership within the Health Care System
- 6: Primary Health Care
- 7: Leadership in Quality Management and Safety
- 8: Leaders and Evidence-Informed Decision Making
- 9: Common Change Theories and Application to Different Nursing Situations
- 10: Using Advocacy to Galvanize Ethics into Action
- 11: Identifying and Understanding How to Manage Conflict
- 12: Responsibility and Authority of Nurse Leaders
- 13: Emergency Preparedness and Response
- 14: Nursing Leadership through Informatics
- 15: Regulation, the Law, Labour Relations, and Negotiations
- 16: Emerging Nursing Leadership Issues
- Back Matter
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- Field Trials of Health Interventions - A Toolbox (Smith, Morrow, and Ross)
- Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in trials that have been conducted in the past have generally not been published. As a consequence, those planning such trials have few guidelines available and little access to previously accumulated knowledge.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to field trials of health interventions
- 2: Types of intervention and their development
- 3: Reviewing the literature
- 4: Trial design
- 5: Trial size
- 6: Ethical considerations
- 7: Trial governance
- 8: Preparing grant applications
- 9: Community engagement
- 10: Censuses and mapping
- 11: Randomization, blinding, and coding
- 12: Outcome measures and case definition
- 13: Preliminary studies and pilot testing
- 14: Questionnaires
- 15: Social and behavioural research
- 16: Field organization and ensuring data of high quality
- 17: Field laboratory methods
- 18: Budgeting and accounting
- 19: Intervention costing and economic analysis
- 20: Data management
- 21: Methods of analysis
- 22: Phase IV studies
- 23: Reporting and Using Trial Results
- Back Matter
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- 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.
- Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals (St-Amant et al.)
- This 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.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to Immunizations
- 2: Understanding the Timing of Vaccines
- 3: Vaccine Administration and Storage
- 4: Vaccine Safety
- 5: Responding to Vaccine Hesitancy
- 6: Misinformation Associated with Immunizations
- 7: Expanding the Scope of Practice for Nurses and Other Health Professionals Involved in Immunization
- Back Matter
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- 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.
- Physical Assessment
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- Interpreting Canada's 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling for Health Professionals (Lapum et al.)
- 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.
- Nursing Care at the End of Life (Lowey)
- 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.
- Care Navigation of Older Adults (Whatcom Community College)
- This course will explore care coordination and navigation with older adults. An overview of the aging process will be discussed. Topics will focus on individual and family centered care issues, communication and health literacy, working with interdisciplinary teams, chronic conditions, prevention, transitions, and resource referral.
- Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness (Melrose)
- 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. 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.
- Mental Health is a Verb (Bush and Van Der Like)
- MENTAL HEALTH IS A VERB is an Open Education Resource that addresses mental health nursing care. A principal focus of a mental health nursing is to provide care to patients with a psychiatric disorder, mental health issue, or behavioral problems. The text reviews the foundations of mental health, psychopharmacology, and the most common mental health diagnoses.
- Caregiving for the Human Condition - An OER for Nursing Assistant Instruction
- This goal of this text is to serve as instructional material for nursing assistant training with a focus on providing holistic, person-centered care in geriatric long-term care facilities, although its contents will be broadly applicable across caregiving contexts.
- Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Education: Integrating Into Curriculum and Practice
- This workbook was established with nurse educators and nursing students in mind to provide knowledge, guidance, and support for integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) across the nursing education spectrum. Contents from this workbook are applicable to pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs, RN-to-BSN programs, and graduate education.
- Strategies for Success in Nursing School From Start to Finish
- This textbook was created for nursing intended students to provide a single resource for the most fundamental tools for success. The chapters and activities provide keys for success both inside and outside of the classroom, starting with time management and moving through study and test taking strategies. Self-care is a focus to help students identify how to care for their best self, which will carry on through the nursing profession to avoid burn out.
- Nursing Advanced Skills (OpenRN)
- This textbook is an open educational resource developed specifically for prelicensure nursing students. Content includes advanced skills for registered nurses, such as intravenous infusion, blood product administration, management of central lines and chest tube systems, basic electrocardiogram interpretation, and nasogastric/feeding tube insertion, and builds on basic nursing skills.
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