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Open Educational Resources: School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Example OER for the School of Nursing and Midwifery

OER collections which provide Nursing and Midwifery eTexts and eBooks include:

See the following OER Textbooks as examples (we also welcome your suggestions)

Title Author Updated Source License
Communication skills for health professionals Brock Cook 2024 JCU Pressbooks CC-BY-NC-SA
Quality in healthcare: Assessing what we do Kilgour & Delaney 2024 UQ Pressbooks CC-BY-NC-SA
Population health for nurses Ochs et al. 2024 OpenStax CC-BY
Clinical nursing skills Christy Bowen 2024 OpenStax CC-BY
Maternal-newborn nursing Giles, Prusinski & Wallace 2024 OpenStax CC-BY
Nutrition for nurses Bilbrew, Vogelzang & Whittington 2024 OpenStax CC-BY
Pharmacology for nurses Barbour-Taylor et al. 2024 OpenStax CC-BY
Psychiatric-mental health nursing Puchkors, Saunders & Sharp 2024 OpenStax CC-BY
An introduction to research methods for undergraduate health profession students Alele and Malau-Aduli 2023 JCU Open Textbooks CC-BY-NC
Leading in health and social care Lloyd, Olley, Milligan et al. 2023 CAUL OER Collective CC-BY-NC
Qualitative Research – a practical guide for health and social care researchers and practitioners Ayton, Tsindos and Berkovic 2023 CAUL OER Collective CC-BY-NC
Case Studies for Health, Research and Practice in Australia and New Zealand Whiteing, Shinners, Graham et al. 2023 CAUL OER Collective CC-BY-SA
Documentation in Nursing and Midwifery: Australian edition Langtree and Wood 2022 JCU Open eBooks CC-BY-NC
Research and evidence in practice  Erickson, Hodgkin, Karasmanis and Murley 2018 La Trobe eBureau CC-BY-NC-ND
A guide to numeracy in nursing Julia Langam 2023 BCcampus OpenEd (Canada) CC-BY
Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care - Thompson Rivers University Edition Anderson, Thompson Rivers University, Doyle, et al. 2022 BCcampus OpenEd (Canada) CC-BY
Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan - 2nd Canadian Edition Lapum, Verkuyl, Garcia, et al. 2021 BCcampus OpenEd (Canada) CC-BY
Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals, 1st Canadian edition St-Amant, Lapum, Dubey, et al. 2020 Open Library (Canada) CC-BY-SA
Comprehensive midwifery: the role of the midwife in health care practice, education and research Hutton and Murray-Davis 2017 Open Library (Canada) CC-BY-NC
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know Lowey 2015 Milne Open Textbooks (USA) CC-BY-NC-SA