The Mental Health and Community Concepts Book Has Been Released

 



The Open RN team is pleased to announce the first edition of the Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts has been released in Pressbooks with CC-BY 4.0 licensing. The permanent URL is https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingmhcc/. This book was developed specifically for prelicensure nursing students. Content is based on the Wisconsin Technical College System statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Mental Health and Community Concepts course, the NCLEX-RN Test Plan, and the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Education Council’s Crosswalk Toolkit: Defining and Using Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Skills in Undergraduate Nursing Education. This textbooks discusses mental health and community health concepts while emphasizing stress management techniques, healthy coping strategies, referrals to community resources, and other preventative interventions. Nursing care for individuals with specific mental health and substance use disorders is examined, and the nurse’s role in community health needs assessments and caring for vulnerable populations is introduced.

We continue to collaborate with XanEdu in creating affordable print versions of the Open RN textbooks. The print version of Mental Health and Community Concepts book will be available in January 2023. 

The print version of the fourth Open RN textbook, Nursing Management and Professional Concepts, is now available for ordering by emailing purchase orders to textbookorders@xanedu.com. It will be available soon on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/173491419X. The free PDF of the print version can be downloaded from the Open RN website, along PDFs of the print versions of the other Open RN textbooks.

Here are the ISBNs for the Open RN textbook series:

978-1-7349141-0-8 – Nursing Pharmacology free e-book

978-1-7349141-1-5 – Nursing Pharmacology print version

978-1-7349141-2-2 – Nursing Skills free e-book

978-1-7349141-3-9 – Nursing Skills print version

978-1-7349141-4-6 – Nursing Fundamentals free e-book

978-1-7349141-5-3 – Nursing Fundamentals print version

978-1-7349141-8-4 – Nursing Management & Professional Concepts free e-book

978-1-7349141-9-1 – Nursing Management & Professional Concepts print version

978-1-7349141-6-0 – Mental Health & Community Concepts free e-book

978-1-7349141-7-7 – Mental Health & Community Concepts print version

We are thrilled to report the Open RN textbooks reached over 4 million page views this month by over 1.3 million international users. We look forward to sharing more project updates at the OpenEd 2022 conference.


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