Nursing Management and Professional Concepts

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.