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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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Nancyruth Leibold, Health Sciences Editor at healthsciences@merlot.org.

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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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New Materials

Sugar is Not a Treat | Jody Stanislaw | TEDxSunValley
Sugar is hiding everywhere in today's widely-accepted diet, but meanwhile its devastating effects are creating more...
Living With High Functioning Anxiety | Jordan Raskopoulos | TEDxSydney
As a comedian and performer, Jordan Raskopolous does not suffer from stage fright, but away from the lights it’s a...
Healthcare Startup | Josh Liu | TEDxYouth@Toronto
Dr. Joshua Liu shares his ideas on how to improve healthcare by capitalizing on the accelerating world of mobile...
Healthcare Reform that Creates Healthier Communities | Anthony Slonim | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Anthony Slonim, M.D., DrPH, is the President and CEO of Renown Health in Reno, Nev., where he has transformed the health...
Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash
"Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed...
What if our health care system kept us healthy?
Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors...
Visualizing the medical data explosion
Medical scans can produce thousands of images for a single patient in seconds, but how do doctors know what's useful?...
A universal translator for surgeons
Laparoscopic surgery uses minimally invasive incisions -- which means less pain and shorter recovery times for patients....
A new way to heal hearts without surgery
At the intersection of medical invention and indigenous culture, pediatric cardiologist Franz Freudenthal mends holes in...
Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts
Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble...
Surgery's past, present and robotic future
Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then...
Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook - 2nd Edition
This casebook, now in its second edition, is a collaboration of over 90 individuals with expertise and training in public...
Documentation in Nursing, 1st Canadian edition
This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices of documentation in the nursing profession. This resource...
Minors’ Refusal of Life-Saving Therapies
Rare but challenging are those cases in which teenagers, whether for religious or other reasons, refuse or seek to...
Religious Diversity: Practical Points for Health Care Providers
Presented here are brief lists of points for health care providers to keep in mind when caring for patients from a number...
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Online courses in foundational cannabis topics as well as advanced cannabis science and therapeutics. Approved by the...
Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan, 1st Canadian edition
This open access textbook was developed as an introductory resource to guide best practices in vital sign measurement....
Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s...
Web 2.0: Risks for STI/HIV - Opportunities for Prevention
This lecture explores the risks and prevention opportunities presented by the emergence of social networking and internet...
Water Sanitation Needs in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Presents a historical overview of the influence of water and sanitation on human health; types of water and sanitation...
Urban Health in Developing Countries
Explores the emerging public health issues associated with rapid growth of urban population in developing countries, with...
Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care
The primary objective of this content is to prepare students to read and interpret cost-effectiveness studies. The...
Tropical Environmental Health
Inadequate water supplies and lack of sanitation facilities represent major hazards to the public health in many parts of...
Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers
This course in Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers identifies the role of training and...

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Deanna Gracia
National Taiwan University
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California State University, East Bay
Susan Hoover
University of North Carolina System - Wilmington
Andrea Linthicum
University of North Carolina System - Wilmington
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Rutgers University – RBHS
Elizabeth Hartz
State University of New York System - College at Buffalo (Buffalo State College)
Rebecca Machusek
Old Dominion University
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Coastal Carolina University
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University System of Georgia - University of North Georgia
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Grand Blanc Community High School
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Old Dominion University
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University of Rochester Medical Center
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Tennessee State University
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Old Dominion University
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Charles River Laboratories
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University of Mississippi
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University of California System - San Francisco
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