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eCampusOntario is a not-for-profit corporation funded by the Government of Ontario. It serves as a centre of excellence in online and technology-enabled learning for all publicly funded colleges and universities in Ontario and has embarked on a bold mission to widen access to post-secondary education and training in Ontario. This textbook is part of eCampusOntario’s Open Library, which provides free learning resources in a wide range of subject areas. These open resources can be assigned by instructors for their classes, downloaded by learners to electronic devices or printed through the University of Waterloo print on demand service. These free and open resources are customizable to meet a wide range of learning needs, and we invite instructors to review and adopt the resources for use in their courses.

About the Authors

Jennifer L. Lapum, RN, BScN, MN, PhD, Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Faculty of Community Services, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto, ON, Canada

Oona St-Amant, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Faculty of Community Services, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto, ON, Canada

Michelle Hughes, RN, BScN, MEd, Professor, Centennial College, School of Community and Health Studies, Toronto, ON, Canada

Paul Petrie, RN, BScN, MScN, Professor, George Brown College, Sally Horsfall Eaton School of Nursing, Toronto, ON, Canada

Sherry Morrell, RN(EC), BScN, MN, PhD(c), Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor, Nurse Practitioner, Windsor Regional Hospital, Windsor, ON, Canada

Sita Mistry, RM, BHScM, BScN student, Ryerson, Centennial, George Brown Collaborative Nursing Degree Program, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

For more information:
Dr. Jennifer L. Lapum
Toronto Metropolitan University
jlapum@torontomu.ca
415-979-5000 ex. 556316
350 Victoria St.
Toronto, ON M5B 2K3

Note to Teachers Using This Resource

We encourage you to use this resource and would love to hear if you have integrated it into your curriculum. Please consider notifying Dr. Lapum if you are using it in your course, identifying the healthcare discipline and the number of students. Please help us support future OER efforts by reporting your adoption of this resource at https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/report-an-adoption/

Legend

Throughout this text you will encounter various learning–teaching strategies. Here is a short summary:

• Textual information describes the content.
• Points of Consideration provide additional information to push your thinking beyond the main point to consider in practice. Points of consideration are visually separated from the rest of the textual information using a text box.
• Findings that require intervention, highlighted as take action, such as abnormal or critical findings or findings that require health promotion.
• Activities give you an opportunity to evaluate your learning.
• Videos and podcasts help you understand the information in a different way.
• Important phrases are bolded.
• Unfamiliar and complex terms are bolded and included in the glossary at the end of the book. If reading the book online, hover your cursor over a bolded word to reveal the definition.

Multimedia Consultant
Neal MacInnes, BA, MA, Academic Information and Communication Technology Supervisor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Medical Artist
Hang Yu Lin, BSc., Master of Science in Biomedical Communications student, University of Toronto University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Video Editing and Support
Jing Cai Han, BTech, Video editor, Office of eLearning, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

eCampusOntario team
Lindsay Woodside, HBA, OCT, MA, Program Manager, Nursing OER, eCampusOntario
Lena Patterson, BA, MA, Senior Director, Programs and Stakeholder, eCampusOntario
Emily Carlisle, BA, MLIS, Editorial Lead, Open at Scale, eCampusOntario

Film Clip Appearances

Siobhan Doyle, BScN student, Ryerson, Centennial, George Brown Collaborative Nursing Degree Program, Toronto, ON, Canada

Michelle Hughes, RN, BScN, MEd, Professor, Centennial College, School of Community and Health Studies, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jennifer L. Lapum, RN, BScN, MN, PhD, Professor, Ryerson University, Faculty of Community Services, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto, ON, Canada

Sita Mistry, RM, BHScM, BScN student, Ryerson, Centennial, George Brown Collaborative Nursing Degree Program, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Sherry Morrell, RN(EC), BScN, MN, PhD(c), Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor, Nurse Practitioner, Windsor Regional Hospital, Windsor, ON, Canada

Paul Petrie, RN, BScN, MScN, Professor, George Brown College, Sally Horsfall Eaton School of Nursing, Toronto, ON, Canada

Oona St-Amant, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Faculty of Community Services, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto, ON, Canada

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