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Welcome to the MERLOT Health Sciences Portal, an educational resource for health professionals. You are invited to join MERLOT―it's free―and contribute to this growing community of health professionals, health professional educators, and students by using the learning materials, submitting your own modules and assignments for evaluation, and learning ideas to help you learn as well as teach in a variety of settings.

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Showcase

Dr. Jamie Murphy's OER textbook for Transitions to Professional Nursing is featured in the Health Sciences showcase. The text is for students transitioning from an associate degree education to a baccalaureate degree. Content includes a broad overview of the nursing profession, the role of accrediting and professional organizations with a strong focus on the American Nurses Association’s foundational documents. The competencies of the Standards of Professional Practice and the Code of Ethics are weaved throughout the text.

Topics covered in this text include professional nursing practice, baccalaureate education, healthcare in the 21st century, autonomy and accountability, nursing philosophy, professional development, communication, interprofessional collaboration, critical thinking, introduction to evidence-based practice, and nursing leadership and theory.

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Nursing yourself away from burnout and compassion fatigue... : Nursing made Incredibly Easy
As nurses, we're the quintessential multitaskers of the healthcare field. We're highly skilled in managing competing...
Extent of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue and burnout in nursing: A meta-analysis - PubMed
In nursing, the prevalence rates of compassion fatigue and burnout are high. Better education and training may have a...
Home of the Labyrinth Movement
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The Labyrinth Society: The Labyrinth Society
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Is patient empowerment the key to promote adherence? A systematic review of the relationship between self-efficacy, health locus of control and medication adherence
Background Current health policies emphasize the need for an equitable doctor-patient relationship, and this requires a...
Professional nurses; facilitation of self-care in intensive care units: A concept analysis -
The result of the concept analysis was used to describe a model to facilitate professional nurses' self-care in the...
Practice Self-Care | Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing
When it comes to your healthcare, it pays to take charge. Adopting a healthy lifestyle, getting preventative care, doing...
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RLO: Body Metabolism
This RLO designed to provide an overview of how body metabolism responses to different physiological conditions.
RLO: Cardiac Output
This RLO is designed to explore the factors that affect cardiac output.
Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD | Everyday Health
Interviews, tips and articles linked to the helath and well-being of nurses and those for whom we care.
Cardiorespiratory | Peer Reviewed Articles
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) may disproportionately affect people with cardiovascular disease. Concern has been...
Cardiorespiratory endurance: Importance and how to improve
Cardiorespiratory endurance provides an indication of a person's physical fitness and measures how well the heart, lungs,...
RLO: DNA Damage and Repair Mechanisms in Human Cells
This RLO is designed to teach undergraduate students in healthcare-related programs to identify different types of DNA...
RLO: Using Varenicline for Smoking Cessation
This RLO is designed to describe the proper use of varenicline for smoking cessation, including its dosing regimen, side...
RLO: Using nicotine patches for smoking cessation
This RLO is designed to teach undergraduate students in healthcare-related programs how nicotine patches should be used...
Protein Drug Discovery & Development
This is a slightly modified version of the lecture "Protein Drug Discovery & Development", which I gave on 2020-09-09 for...
CAPS I Physical Examination Module: Cardiovascular System
At our institution, teaching basic physical examination (PE) skills capitalizes on the use of electronic resources and...
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The Journal of Advances in Breast Cancer Research and Development is an online open access peer reviewed journal that...
Health Equity | CDC
One of the primary goals of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) is to...
Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities
We launch this page during Black History Month to celebrate the accomplishments of Black people across the healthcare...
Nearly half of U.S. workers suffer from mental health issues since Covid-19 pandemic hit, report finds
There's been a jump in worker mental health issues in the last 12 months, according to a report. Companies large and...
WHO Executive Board stresses need for improved response to mental health impact of public health emergencies
The importance of integrating mental health into preparedness and response plans for public health emergencies was...
Depression, Anxiety, Loneliness Are Peaking in College Students
A survey by a Boston University researcher of nearly 33,000 college students across the country reveals the prevalence of...

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