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Human Anatomy
Whitney Menefee, Julie Jenks, Chiara Mazzasette, & Kim-Leiloni Nguyen · Reedley College, Butte College, Pasadena City College, & Mt. San Antonio College
The purpose of this textbook is to serve as a resource for students who are taking a first semester human anatomy course. All efforts were made to ensure the material covered in this resource is consistent, accurate, and accessible. This material was also designed to be equitable, diverse, and inclusive. (Thumbnail Image credit: "Anatomy head - semi profile - close-up of mouth area" by Medical Graphics is licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0)
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Nutrition for Nurses
Openstax · LibreTexts
Nutrition for Nurses is structured to support the flexible integration of nutrition content across both system-based and nursing competency-based curricula. It can be used whether nutrition is taught as a standalone course or part of another nursing course. The text emphasizes evidence-based practice and holistic assessment to facilitate the integration of nutritional awareness for pre-licensure nursing students in the provision of client-centered care.
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Medical Terminology for Healthcare Professions
Andrea Nelson and Katherine Greene · University of West Florida
Medical Terminology for Healthcare Professions is an Open Educational Resource (OER) that focuses on breaking down, pronouncing, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of anatomy and physiology. This resource is targeted for Healthcare Administration, Health Sciences, and Pre-Professional students.
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Exercise and Nutrition
Dawn Markell, Diane Peterson, and Carrie Johnson · Centralia College
This OER textbook explores components of a healthy lifestyle and methods for incorporating these components into daily life. Fitness assessment, exercise program development, nutrition, weight management, goal setting, and stress management are discussed.
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Nursing Assistant
Myra Sandquist Reuter · Chippewa Valley Technical College
Chippewa Valley Technical College is pleased to announce the release of the Nursing Assistant OER textbook with CC BY licensing. This book was developed for use in Nursing Assistant courses with funding from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF). It contains remixed content from Open RN textbooks and other OER sources as well as new content. Chapters contain interactive learning activities and videos of instructor skills demonstrations.
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NUTR10: Principles of Nutrition
Sheldon · Woodland Community College
Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. It includes food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion. The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the availability, the processing and palatability of foods.
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Community and Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action
Andrea Reed et al. · Virginia's Academic Library Consortium
This text is a primer exploring the diverse roles of community and public health nurses through a social justice lens. Students will gain the fundamental knowledge and skills to work with community members and other stakeholders to promote health and well-being and to prevent disease. This textbook examines key issues such as health disparities, access to care, cultural competence, and the impact of social determinants on public health outcomes.
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A Mixed Course Based Research Approach to Human Physiology
Karri Haen Whitmer · Iowa State University
These labs were designed to provide students with hands-on access to modern techniques in human physiological analyses using the course-based research pedagogical approach. Students will learn how to perform literature searches; generate research questions and hypotheses; design experiments; collect, analyze, visualize and interpret data; and present scientific findings to others.
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Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. It includes food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion. The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the availability, the processing and palatability of foods.
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Cell Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry for Pre-Clinical Students
Renee J. LeClair · Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Cell Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry for Pre-Clinical Students is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge across the disciplines of genetics, cell biology and biochemistry. This USMLE-aligned text is designed for a first-year undergraduate medical course that is delivered typically before students start to explore systems physiology and pathophysiology.
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Clinical Hematology Atlas: A Pictorial Guide for the Hematology Laboratory (Taylor and Doty)
Caroline Doty and Dawn Taylor · Oregon Institute of Technology
In Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Hematology courses, students learn to evaluate normal and abnormal blood cell morphology through microscopic examination of blood smears. They learn to interpret results and correlate with other laboratory data to identify hematologic disorders. Note: this textbook is still evolving and should be considered a work in progress; new images will be added in the future.
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Acid-base pHysiology
Kerry Brandis · Gold Coast Hospital
A particular aim of this book is to develop the subject gradually and systematically, and to lead you to a practical structured approach to analysis of blood gas results which you can use in your clinical practice. Because of the interaction of acid-base physiology with respiratory, cardiovascular, and renal systems and substrate metabolism, in particular, a set of blood-gas results can be a very useful teaching aid.
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Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts
Ernstmeyer & Christman (Eds.) · OpenRN
This text addresses mental health and community health concepts 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.
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TIP 57: Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration · LibreTexts
This manual helps behavioral health professionals understand the impact of trauma on those who experience it. The manual discusses patient assessment and treatment planning strategies. These strategies support recovery and the development of a trauma-informed care workforce.
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Neuroscience for Pre-Clinical Students
Renee J. LeClair · Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Neuroscience for Pre-Clinical Students covers neuroenergetics, neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and selected amino acid metabolism and degradation. This USMLE-aligned text is designed for a first-year undergraduate medical course and is meant to provide the essential biochemical information from these content areas in a concise format to enable students to engage in an active classroom.
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Nursing Fundamentals
Ernstmeyer & Christman (Eds.) · Chippewa Valley Technical College
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.
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An Introduction to Nutrition
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This book is organized using a functional approach, which means that the material is organized around physiological functions, such as fluid and electrolyte balance, antioxidant function, bone health, energy and metabolism, and blood health, instead of organizing it strictly by nutrient.
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Health Case Studies
Rees, Kruger, and Morrison · British Columbia Institute of Technology
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.
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Open Neuroscience Initiative
Austin Lim · DePaul University
This project began as a means to overcoming the financial burden that face undergraduate neuroscience students when buying textbooks. By compiling and writing a completely free-to-access textbook that covers the foundations of a typical college introduction to neuroscience course, students would have one less obstacle to overcome in their educational career, allowing them to focus their valuable time and attention on learning rather than finances.
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Public Health Ethics - Cases Spanning the Globe
Drue H. Barrett, Angus Dawson & Leonard W. Ortmann · University of Sydney & CDC
Broadly speaking, public health ethics helps guide practical decisions affecting population or community health based on scientific evidence and in accordance with accepted values and standards of right and wrong. In these ways, public health ethics builds on its parent disciplines of public health and ethics. Public health ethics shares with other fields of practical and professional ethics both the general theories of ethics and a common store of ethical principles, values, and beliefs.