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Peer Review

2023 Compendium of North American Nursing OER – Simple Book Publishing

Reviewed:

Sep 9, 2025 by Health Sciences
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 5.0 stars
Content Quality: 5.0 stars
Effectiveness: 5.0 stars
Ease of Use: 5.0 stars
Overview:

The aim of this compendium is to provide nurse educators with an easily accessible collection of 25 resources designed to support student learning, particularly within nursing programs.

Type of Material:

Open (Access) Textbook

Recommended Uses:

  • For nursing students at all educational levels. These materials are useful in class, assignments, teamwork, and independent work.
Technical Requirements:

 

  • Internet access
  • Web browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:

The source provides access to a series of online textbooks that offer free and easily accessible resources. 

After use, nurse educators will

  • Identify OER textbooks for courses
Target Student Population:

  • College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

  • Beginner, intermediate, or advanced health care knowledge. 
  • Have a nursing career focus
  • Internet access
  • Basic computer skills

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:

  • The books may all relate to nursing specific learning track and content but they can also be read as stand alone books as well. 
  • The materials have a diverse focus on many important topics within the nursing profession.
Concerns:

 

  • Some content has a specific population focus that may not be useful for all students.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:

  • These books can promote understanding and assist in retaining information.
  • The text books are effective learning tools for all levels of nursing students and some other healthcare workers. 
  • There is a diversity of materials that can be used in many different contexts.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:

Each book has a menu for navigation. User needs to be familar with basic computer navigation

The links brought you directly to the resources available without any technical challenges.

The resource is a compilation of other OER textbooks from Pressbooks. It includes a review with an access link to each OER textbook.

A chapter nicely reviews the Accessibility, Interactivity, and Licensing of each OER textbook/resource in a well-organized table. This is an outstanding five-star feature! 

The resource includes working links in Ordinary Text, selectable text, accessible tables, and headings.

Other Issues and Comments:

The only thing that stood out was that some of the materials were population-specific, which would limit their usefulness.

Additional note from Editor: Nursing contains many specialties that are population-specific. 

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