JCU Library staff are pleased to announce the first iteration of Foundations of Nursing Skills: A Comprehensive Guide for the Australian Context has now been published as a JCU Open Education Resource (OER). The initial phase of this text features 16 chapters with additional content currently in development and planned for release in the second half of 2025.
Congratulations to authors Leisa Sanderson, Tracey Gooding, Penelope Coogan, Sandra Dash, Kate Hurley, Jessica Best and Amy McCrystal on the publication of this ebook. These JCU academic authors are
leading the way in developing high quality, peer reviewed openly
licensed resources for nursing students at JCU and beyond.
Developed with support from both the JCU College of Healthcare Sciences and a James Cook University Textbook Affordability Project Grant, the primary aim was to develop a freely available openly licensed resource for students that equips them with the essential knowledge and skills required to provide safe, person-centred care in a range of clinical settings.
Written specifically for the Australian context, this ebook features step by step procedures, case studies and reflective prompts to support students to develop attributes such as:
- clinical reasoning
- cultural responsiveness
- evidence-based skills.
Foundations of Nursing Skills: A Comprehensive Guide for the Australian Context is freely available from the JCU Open eBooks website.
The development of this resource was facilitated by the JCU Open Educational Resources Program
The JCU Open Educational Resources Program is a project in the Education Division, spearheaded by JCU Library. The aim of the project is two-fold:
- To support lecturers in adopting, adapting and creating Open Educational Resources including textbooks and workbooks in order to better support the learning of our students at JCU.
- To make information about the people and places of the Tropics more widely accessible and understood. More than 40% of the world's population live in the Tropics and 40% of the world's surface is within the Tropics, but the area is often underrepresented in teaching materials. The JCU Open Educational Resources Program aims to provide more access to knowledge and information about this key region.
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