Second Quarter, Fourth Year Quarterly Program Report

 

Here is the quarterly program report for June 1 - September 1, 2022.

Here is a high level overview of project updates from this quarter:

  • The fifth OER book of the Open RN textbook series, Mental Health and Community Concepts, was published in Pressbooks in August 2022. The affordable print version is anticipated to be available in college bookstores in January 2023.
  • The print version of Management and Professional Concepts was printed and available in college bookstores in August 2022. The free, edited PDF of the print version can be downloaded here.
  • Cumulatively through 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years, 12 WTCS colleges adopted one or more Open RN textbooks in 286 OER course sections, impacting 3165 students and resulting in student cost savings of $254,642. These numbers are anticipated to exponentially grow during the 2022-2023 academic year and beyond now that all five Open RN textbooks have been published.
  • In addition to the WTCS colleges, 44 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada have adopted Open RN textbooks according to XanEdu, the publisher of affordable Open RN print versions. These affordable print versions are sold for approximately 1/3rd of the average similar commercial textbook cost, resulting in significant cost savings for students across the country and the PDF of the print versions can be downloaded for free. See the Open RN website for links.
  • Google Analytics continues to show broad international usage of the free online Open RN textbooks with over 4.3 million page views by over 1.6 million international users.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Newborn Virtual Simulation Scenario

Image
As part of the response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Open RN team is pleased to announce the release of an OER Newborn Assessment Virtual Simulation  created in the H5P platform.  Faculty can incorporate this link into their learning management system for students to independently complete this scenario on their computer:  https://cvtc.h5p.com/content/1290975333436042968 An associated Teaching Plan is also provided for faculty with additional discussion questions that can potentially be used for a group activity.  Please provide feedback on this scenario using the survey link in the Teaching Plan.  We value your feedback as we continue to create additional virtual simulations using H5P.
Read more

NCLEX Next Generation: Case Study Questions

Image
NCSBN just released " The NGN Case Study " in their quarterly Next Generation NCLEX News, explaining how Next Generation questions are formatted in association with case studies.  The Open RN project is currently creating similar case studies and critical thinking questions for the Nursing OER Textbooks using H5P.   If you have personally developed similar case studies for your Pharmacology, Skills, Fundamentals, Mental Health or Management  courses that you would be interested in sharing with the Open RN project under CC by 4.0 licensing, please feel free to forward them to Kim Ernstmeyer at kernstmeyer@cvtc.edu. If your case study is selected for use by the Open RN workgroup, your name will be credited in the associated textbook.
Read more

New virtual simulation activities - Patient with Heart Failure on a Ventilator and Patient with Chronic Angina

Image
The Open RN team has quickly created 2 new H5P branching scenarios that can be used as "virtual simulation" by instructors trying to find  online learning activities to substitute for clinical. In addition to assigning these as independent learning activities, instructors could also potentially add additional group discussion questions regarding: focused assessments, setting goals and outcome criteria, prioritization of interventions, and evaluation.   Suggested discussion questions are included in the teaching plans below. Scenario overviews and associated teaching plans: 1.  Patient with heart failure on a ventilator: https://h5p.org/node/771207 Teaching Plan Overview :   Hector Fernandez is a 62-year-old male patient with a history of heart failure who was brought to the Emergency Department via EMS. He subsequently arrested, was resuscitated, and is now on a mechanical ventilator. Learning Objectives Incorporate evidence-based practice wh
Read more