OpenRN

OpenRN presented at WTCS Nursing State Curriculum meeting on September 20th, 2019.  We received a lot of good questions from nursing instructors, as well as a lot of interest in reviewing or collaborating on OER textbook workgroups!  Powerpoint link

CCC OER quarterly meeting:  Open RN presentation Google Presentation Slides

Second Quarterly Performance Report

First Department of Education Quarterly Performance Report

Open RN Infographic

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.   Who :   The Open RN project is led by Chippewa Valley Technical College. Five nursing textbooks are being collaboratively written with nursing faculty from other Wisconsin technical colleges.   The books will be reviewed by nursing faculty, deans, healthcare alliance members, and other industry representatives to ensure the content is current and accurate. What: The OER Nursing textbooks are aligned with the Wisconsin Technical College State Nursing curriculum. When : The publishing timeline for the OER Nursing textbooks is: Fall 2020:   Nursing Pharmacology Fall 2021:   Nursing Fundamentals and Skills Fall 2022:   Mental Health & Community Concepts and Management & Professional Concepts Where:   The textbooks will be published in Pressbooks and will be free and o