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OER and Affordable Resources for Nursing: Open Textbooks

Open RN

Open RN is centered at Chippewa Valley Technical College (Eau Claire, WI) in collaboration with the Wisconsin Technical College System. It is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The plan is to publish five open textbooks and a group of Virtual Simulations. (Textbooks are to be updated every three years to align with changes in the NCLEX-RN.) Although written with Wisconsin standards of care and technical college students in mind, the open license allows for customizing. The texts published so far (links to the relevant page in the Open Textbook Library are included here):

Other Open Textbooks

Pharmacology

Nutrition

Introduction to Nursing

RN to BSN

Research and Writing

Leadership

Older Adults/End of Life Care

Mental Health

Public/Community Health

Procedures and Assessments