Introduction

This page is intended to be a growing collection of topics of interest to those teaching in the health sciences. Some copyrighted sites are referenced that may be used as ancillaries in your courses. As such sites may cease to be available and may have accessibility issues, you do not want to rely on them. You can directly access this page using the following:
tinyurl.com/OERI-HS2020

Google Document from ASCCC-Hosted Health Sciences Conversations

Nursing Resources Shared Via the CCCOER List-Serv (from a list maintained by Larry Green)

The grant I worked on, Rx Tennessee, dealt exclusively with healthcare related material. All of Roane State Community College's grant materials can be found on Skills Commons: https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=Roane+State+

A Prescription for Training Healthcare Workers in Tennessee (RxTN):http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/399
Direct link to RxTN Learning Resources Collections: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/400
Direct link to RxTN Program Support Materials Collection: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/931

One other resource - Carnegie Mellon OLI has a Healthcare IT Foundations course that is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA. I really like this resource because, beyond IT, it covers a range of topics that are covered in many courses like healthcare organizations, professional behaviors, and information privacy. Given the open licensing, it is easy to remix into any course. Health IT Foundations - Open & Free for Independent Learners

I am searching for nursing OER, more specifically for a perioperative course (surgery). Is anyone familiar with this niche or can guide me to modules, journal articles, text, etc. >> This may not be the topics that are needed – but it is very well done: https://www.openpediatrics.org/collection/simulators

Additional Health Science Resources from the CCCOER List-Serv

Open RN

Open RN YouTube Channel - This channel contains OER media with a CC 4.0 license being used by the Open RN project. The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios.

ARISE Scenario Summary Sheet - Details of resources available at Open RN YouTube Channel. ARISE Media Overview - resources are licensed CC BY.

Calculating Drug Dosages

Dose Calculation (Ratio and Proportion) - this page, is part of a "book" that is licensed CC-BY, begins as follows:

Three primary methods for calculation of medication dosages exist; Dimensional Analysis, Ratio Proportion, and Formula or Desired Over Have Method. We are going to explore the Ratio-Proportion Method, one of these three methods, in more detail.

The referenced book is a series of informational pages that are likely to be useful to a number of disciplines. The formal citation for this resource is as follows: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430685/

The nurse's quick guide to I.V. drug calculations - a copyrighted (but free online exclusive) that provides examples of basic calculations. There is also an option to request permission to use this resource in a variety of ways. If you use it and obtain permission to do so, please share that experience with the OERI.

Dosage Calculations: NCLEX-RN - this is not an openly licensed site, so you would not want to rely on it as a resource. It also will subject students to advertisements - but it may also be a useful resource.

Basic drug calculations - An Australian website that may be useful. As with other copyrighted sites, linking to such resources is permitted - but you do not want to rely on them. Any such site may also have accessibility issues.

Calculating Safe Medication Dose Ranges: Learning Practice Activities - "This learning activity is designed to give nursing students confidence and skill with calculating safe dose medication ranges used in the clinical setting. The learner will be introduced to concept with a short tutorial, a Flash interactive learning module and an Excel workbook to check their answers. This learning activity is appropriate for students in LPN and RN nursing programs." (licensing not specified)

Other Sources of Resources to Consider

Health and Nursing - An OER LibGuide from Madison College Libraries

Health, Medicine, and Nursing - This collection at "Go Open Michigan" appears to be a growing collection of diverse resources.