17 Medicine & Nursing

Book Collections & Textbooks

• Open Textbook Library: Medicine
  • Cell Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry for Pre-Clinical Students; Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook; Nursing Skills; Nursing Fundamentals; A Guide to the Principles of Animal Nutrition; Nutrition: Histology and Embryology for Dental Hygiene; Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice; Safety, Health, and Nutrition in Early Childhood Education; Nursing Pharmacology; The Complete Subjective Health Assessment; & more.
• Medicines by Design
  • a science education booklet that discusses the different ways medicines work in the body and how this information guides the hunt for drugs of the future. [NIH; fed gov’t site]
• Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan
  • the purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multimedia approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement. [CC BY-SA]
• Allied Health Chemistry
  • introduces students to the foundations of General, Organic and Biological Chemistry; prepares students to be successful in health-related degree programs; textbook focuses on the basic fundamentals of measurements in chemistry, the scientific method, an introduction into atoms, elements and trends of the periodic table, chemical bond formation, stoichiometry and chemical reactions, an introduction to organic chemistry, and the relationship of concepts to biological systems is carried throughout the text with a focus on medical and health-related aspects; available in word, pdf, online [CC BY-NC-SA]
• Nursing Fundamentals
  • developed for entry-level nursing students; introduces the entry-level nursing student to the scope of nursing practice, various communication techniques, and caring for diverse patients; 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.[CC BY]
• Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
  • 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. [CC BY]

• Nursing Pharmacology

  • 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; [CC BY]

Journals

• Progress in Preventive Medicine
  • open access, peer reviewed journal covering preventive, personalized, predictive and participatory (P4) medicine. P4 medicine represents a move from models of reacting to illness to maintaining health and a pro-active health care approach; prolonging the healthspan is a primary goal of this new model.
• Journal of Nursing Research
  • articles from a variety of national and international institutions; covers trends and issues of contemporary nursing practice in Taiwan. All articles are published in English so that JNR can better serve the whole nursing profession and introduce nursing in Taiwan to people around the world. Topics cover nursing, psychology, education, management and statistics.

• Medicine

  • open access publication covering broad spectrum of medical scientific disciplines and sub-specialties

Repositories & Research

• Nursing – Excelsior College OWL: provides resources to communicate clearly and effectively in a healthcare setting; includes: Care Plans; Community Health Literature; SOAP Notes [CC BY]
• NCHS – National Center for Health Statistics
• HealthData.gov
• Fact Sheets About Science and Health: The National Institute of General Medical Sciences offers a variety of fact sheets that capture information about the Institute and the research it supports. These fact sheets highlight advances in areas of basic biomedical research and describe the impact of this research on understanding and improving our health; includes: Anesthesia; Burns; Circadian Rhythms; Genetics; Physical Trauma; Regeneration; Research Organisms; Sepsis; Studying Cells; and more
• The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education [CC BY-SA]
• Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students: 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. [CC BY]

Videos

• Oxford Medical Education Videos: Videos produced by students at Oxford University Medical School. A free, open-access medical education resource for doctors and medical students.
• EmpoweRN: [CC BY]
• Nursing Math Videos: Medication Dosage Calculation; Basic IV Calculation; IM Dosage Calculations; IV Dosage Calculations; Pediatric Dosage Calculations; SQ Dosage Calculation; SAT Math Practice [CC BY-SA]

• Merck Manual Videos: Cardiovascular Disorders; Critical Care Medicine; Dental Disorders;Dermatologic Disorders; Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders; Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders; Eye Disorders; Gastrointestinal Disorders; Genitourinary Disorders; Gynecology and Obstetrics; Hematology and Oncology; Immunology; Allergic Disorders; Infectious Diseases; Injuries; Poisoning; Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Disorders; Neurologic Disorders; Nutritional Disorders; Pediatrics; Psychiatric Disorders; Pulmonary Disorders; Special Subjects;Injuries; Poisoning; Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Disorders

Interactive

• OpenRN Branching Scenarios (Nursing) | LibreStudio
• ecampus Ontario H5P: Medicine & Nursing
• Open RN Virtual Reality Scenarios: VR scenarios created by the Open RN team; Google document format; free and openly available for faculty to use, adapt or modify and  have been built based on the functionality using the Acadicus VR software platform.  [CC BY 4.0]
• Medicine, Nursing & Nutrition LibreStudio: H5P embeddable interactive content; openly-licensed; learning activities include:: image sequencing, multiple choice, drag & drop, fill in the blanks, interactive book, true/false, question sets, interactive video, sort the paragraphs, collage, and more.