45 College of Nursing
Nursing Pharmacology
This peer reviewed American text was made by several contributors in the Wisconsin Technical College System. It explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes.
Includes: Practice questions, critical thinking activity, answer key, glossary, interactive images
Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
This resource was produced by nursing faculty at BCIT. This text serves a supplementary resource for information about how to perform clinical procedures. The format of the text includes video demonstrations, flowcharts, and checklists to ensure high compliance to protocol. The topics covered include: infection control, patient assessment, patient positioning, wound care, oxygen therapy, medication administration and tubal attachments.
Includes: Critical thinking exercises, flowcharts, video demonstrations, glossary
Community Library: Nursing
This collection comprises learning scenarios for a variety of nursing situations, including mental status assessment, medication administration, and dementia care.
Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions
This peer reviewed text was authored by 3 nursing faculty at Athabasca, in collaboration with various healthcare professionals from many institutions across Canada. The text is centered around patient care activities such as challenging their unconscious assumptions about a patient’s race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and evaluation of learning.
Includes: exercises and critical thinking questions.
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know
Published by SUNY with the goal to foster the necessary skills for nurses to provide compassionate care to individuals who are nearing the end of life and families who are or have experienced the loss of a loved one. This text covers effective interpersonal communication between the patient and clinician at the three stages; anticipation, in the moment, and afterwards. The text provides a basic foundation of death and dying, including models of care and evidenced based approaches.
Includes: Examples, Online resources
The Complete Subjective Health Assessment
This text was developed by Ryerson University. The textbook deconstructs the categories of the complete subjective health assessment, providing learners with explanations and examples of what constitutes relevant subjective data. This textbook provides an opportunity to learn how to respond to normal, abnormal, and critical findings when completing a complete subjective health assessment. Topics covered include: Subjective Health Assessment, Cultural Safety, and Care Partners
Includes: Quiz, glossary
Multi-Course Case Studies in Health Sciences
While not specific to nursing, this resource is a collection of interconnected multidisciplinary case studies. They have been designed to be used in multiple undergraduate courses so that students can return to them over time from different perspectives