Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles across Saskatchewan and Canada have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices focus on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge needed to meet the leadership challenges in the ever-changing Canadian health care environment.
Type of Material:
Open (Access) Textbook
Recommended Uses:
This book can be used as the main text for a nursing leadership course or as supplemental material. The book includes research materials, essential learning activities, and exercises. Free online support tools are recommended such as software for group annotation while reviewing research documents and recommended websites.
This book could supplement in-class work.
This material can be used as homework, team, individual, class discussion, and self-paced.
Technical Requirements:
Internet Access
The book can be accessed in any browser and downloaded, or read online. No special software is required to read the materials.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The specific goals of this textbook are:
to ensure the information is relevant to Canadian nursing students with a focus on care of Indigenous populations,
to tailor the content to nursing students’ needs for both practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge,
to provide up-to-date, evidence-informed content on nursing leadership,
to thread Indigenous content throughout the textbook, and
to tailor the textbook to the curriculum.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional.
Oriented to Canadian students and the care of Indigenous nations; however, the content is applicable to other countries.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Basic nursing knowledge is helpful. It is written about nursing and is geared toward Canadian nurses.
This material is best utilized by students with a foundational understanding of the nursing role and nursing process, health and wellness across the lifespan, introductory-level experience with culturally responsive nursing care, and a basic understanding of quality improvement projects in healthcare.
The author recommends this textbook for third-year nursing students.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The content is accurate, valid, and reliable.
The material presents learning chapters with reflective questions at the end of each chapter, which depict reality.
The chapters teach important factors for nurses to consider.
The chapters are up to date.
The content is general and needed for every nurse, especially for nurses who want to become leaders.
The text has all the materials necessary to conduct a course in nursing leadership. The supporting materials can be reduced or expanded as needed to meet the rigor and credit level appropriate for the course.
Use of the text requires internet access only for the initial download, and supporting tools are optional.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
These chapters use color-coded objectives, an introduction, a conclusion, and a test at the end of each chapter to facilitate learning.
The material is presented with clarity, focus, and organization.
Engaging stories, exercises, and materials from recent field practice are included and labeled.
Research for each section is clear, accessible, and tools for expanding and exploring the research are suggested.
Concepts are clearly presented.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The material is easy to navigate.
The presentation of each concept is clear and free of distractions.
The book is easy to download in multiple formats, and the information is selectable.
This text provides robust instructions, ideas, additional and supportive free tools, and is very clear in its layout, purpose, and content.
Sequential headings are present.
Text is selectable.
The chapter text includes SmartLinks or ordinary text links.
Text chapters use color coding throughout; however, the content is accessible, and color coding is not the only indicator.
Concerns:
References include website addresses. SmartLinks or ordinary text is recommended for full accessibility.
Other Issues and Comments:
The OER textbook is an exceptional work of scholarship!
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