Preface
Carrie Dickson, DNP, APRN, CNM, CNE
Message to Faculty
This is a remix (sometimes called derivative or secondary OER) designed specifically for the Synthesis (NURS 2200) course at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN. While you are welcome to reuse this book for any course, I encourage you to curate/ remix a resource tailored to your own course using the excellent, peer-reviewed primary OER sources such as OpenRN, OpenStax Nursing, or other high-quality OER primary sources. Please note that this book was first curated in November 2024, and I anticipate making frequent updates.
I welcome faculty to contact me with questions about this or about ways to reduce resource costs for nursing students. Additionally, if you are using this book as a resource, or have noticed any errors, please let me know.
Editor
- Carrie Dickson, DNP, APRN, CNM, CNE, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN.
Licensing Information/ Terms of Use
This e-book is free with CC BY NC SA 4.0 licensing and can be viewed online or downloaded as a PDF or in other formats for offline use.
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- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation .
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Attribution
The main source for this resource:
- Ernstmeyer, K., & Christman, E. (Eds.). (2024). Nursing Management and Professional Concepts, 2e by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by OpenRN
Some of the content was also adapted from the following open educational resources:
- Bowen, C., Draper, L., & Moore, H. (2024). Fundamentals of Nursing. OpenStax.
- Ernstmeyer, K., & Christman, E. (Eds.). (2021). Open RN Nursing Fundamentals by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ernstmeyer, K., & Christman, E. (Eds.). (2022). Nursing Mental Health and Community Concepts by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- Ochs, J., Roper, S. L., & Schwartz, S. M. (2024). Population Health for Nurses. OpenStax.
- Microsoft Copilot was used to support several chapters of this book (as noted in the chapters). Note: Microsoft Copilot uses commercial data protection to ensure the security and privacy of user data. Prompts and responses are not saved, and data is not used to train the underlying large language model.
Suggested Citation
Note: use the primary source whenever possible rather than citing this text
Dickson, C. (2024). Nursing Synthesis and Capstone, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Report Adoptions or Corrections
Please let me know if you notice a correction needed, have adopted this book, or used it for inspiration to curate a book for your own course.
