Nursing Management and Professional Concepts

Reviewed by Susan Scollins, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island College on 3/11/25

Comprehensiveness rating: 5 see less

This book provides a conceptual approach to foundational topics in nursing management and professional practice topics. The chapters within the book are organized using a standard format that includes an introduction, basic concepts, discussion of key topics, an in text "spotlight application" learning activity, a selection of learning activities and a glossary of terms important to the chapter. The book also provides a search feature to enter key terms and a master glossary for terms. The consistent format will allow students to have confidence navigating the material and reinforce their ability to navigate the information. The learning activities provided have several modes that would appeal to a variety of students and include flash cards, crossword puzzles, drag and drop questions, and links to NCLEX Next Gen style unfolding case studies.

Content Accuracy rating: 5

The book is well written, with up to date, accurate sources that are established and respected within the nursing profession. Information is up to date, relevant, and the links within the text are active. leading to the linked material. The material was well edited, with no typos or broken links encountered while using the book.

Relevance/Longevity rating: 5

Content within this book is organized into smaller sections within the chapters, including clickable resources and references. This makes updates to the book easier to manage.

Clarity rating: 5

Each chapter includes a glossary of key terms that would aid the reader in identifying important terms to know about the subject. This is a college level text and the vocabulary, sentence length and grammatical structure is appropriate to students at this level. Since this is a book with specialty subject information, some prior knowledge is presumed to help the reader put the material in context.

Consistency rating: 5

The book provides a familiar framework for each chapter that will help students navigate the material.

Modularity rating: 5

Each chapter includes smaller modules of information that includes some figures and tables to help organize the information. The references to each module are included at the end of the individual section so the reader does not need to hunt for this formation. The book links to other OER resources, which is a nice feature that enhances accessibility of this work.

Organization/Structure/Flow rating: 5

The book uses a consistent format within each chapter which the reader will quickly become accustomed; this provides the reader with a reassuring rhythm when working with the material.

Interface rating: 5

The figures selected are clear and not distorted. Tables are clean and easy to read. Each chapter is separated with an additional space, which provides natural pauses for the reader.

Grammatical Errors rating: 5

No typos or grammatical errors were identified when reading this work.

Cultural Relevance rating: 4

There were no biased or culturally inappropriate passages encountered. and minimal use of photographs in the work.

Comments

This book is a well researched and informative text for nursing students. The chapter on burnout and self-care is particularly relevant to students and nurses working in healthcare today. A large variety of resources were provided that would enhance student success and well-being. The book can be accessed and read online, in a pdf and e-book formats. When accessing online, a nice feature would be a way to navigate from module to module at the bottom of the page, rather than clicking back out to the chapter and then to the next module.

Reviewed by Carrie Dickson, Nursing Instructor, Normandale Community College on 5/30/23

Comprehensiveness rating: 5 see less

I have used this book for two semesters in a lower-division nursing leadership/ management course and plan to continue to use it. I believe this is a very comprehensive and appropriately-leveled resource for prelicensure leadership, management, or professional concepts nursing courses. It is especially relevant for associate's degree programs and lower-division nursing courses, and it's frankly refreshing to find resources appropriate to this level. I believe upper-division courses could start with this as foundational knowledge, but may want to build on it with other OER materials, journals, etc.

Content Accuracy rating: 5

I have found the information for be very accurate and unbiased.

Relevance/Longevity rating: 5

I believe this book can remain relevant for quite some time. The book is divided into sections that make it easy to assign small sections that fit the topics needed.

Clarity rating: 5

I am grateful to find a text that is finally at an appropriate reading level for a lower-division, pre-licensure nursing course.

Consistency rating: 5

The book feels very consistent in terminology and layout throughout. In fact, I have read several books from OpenRN and they all have excellent consistency between them, making it easy to pick up another one of their books and jump right in.

Modularity rating: 5

Modularity is among the many strengths of this book and the OpenRN structure overall.

Organization/Structure/Flow rating: 5

I appreciate how the book is organized and yet how easy it is to assign readings outside of the typical organization if I so choose.

Interface rating: 5

The book and interface are incredibly easy to use.

Grammatical Errors rating: 5

I have not seen any grammatical errors in the full year plus that I have now been using this book.

Cultural Relevance rating: 5

The content here around health disparities, social determinants of health, etc. go beyond inclusivity and support effectively teaching these topics.

Comments

My students have supported the use of the book and commented on its ease of navigation and accessibility of language.