Free Printable PDF of Mental Health & Community Concepts

 


Free printable PDFs of the Mental Health & Community Concepts book (as well as the other Open RN OER textbooks) can be downloaded from the Open RN website. These PDFs match the soft-cover print versions of the Open RN textbooks that are created in collaboration with XanEdu.

Affordable print versions of Mental Health & Community Concepts will be shipped to college bookstores in January and will become available on Amazon soon thereafter.

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