Quarterly Monitoring Report, First Quarter, Third Year

 

View the Quarterly Monitoring Report for the first quarter of the third year of the project.

Highlights from the quarter ending May 31, 2021 include:

  • Over 90,000 international users of the Nursing Pharmacology e-book have contributed to over 500,000 page views from June 1, 2020 to June 1, 2021 (ISBN 978-1-7349141-0-8). Over 1000 affordable print versions have been sold nationally by XanEdu and with over 560 downloads of their free edited pdf (ISBN 978-1-7349141-1-5).
  • The Nursing Skills e-book was published in Pressbooks and in LibreTexts in May 2021 (ISBN 978-1-7349141-2-2). The optional, affordable print version was published by XanEdu on June 21, 2021 and will be available in college bookstores and on Amazon (ISBN 978-1-7349141-3-9). The edited print PDF is available for free download from XanEdu.
  • The review process of Nursing Fundamentals by national reviewers has concluded. The e-book will be published in Pressbooks by July 1, 2021 (ISBN 978-1-7349141-4-6) and the affordable print version will be published by XanEdu later this summer (ISBN 978-1-7349141-5-3).
  • The Mental Health & Community Concepts and the Management & Professional Concepts textbooks have begun development. It is anticipated they will be ready for review in Spring 2022.
  • Online virtual simulations using H5P branching scenarios continue to be developed and embedded within the Open RN textbooks. Hyperlinks for these learning activities with CC BY licensing will continue to be added here.
  • Virtual reality scenarios continue to be developed in Acadicus VR software. Here is a prototype teaching plan for the VR scenario, Cardiac Medication Administration to a Patient with Dementia.  Additional VR scenarios currently in development include safety, nitroglycerin administration, pediatric pain, and heart failure.

 


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