Acknowledgements
This 2nd Canadian Edition of Fundamentals of Nursing Pharmacology: A Conceptual Approach was adapted by Andrea Sullivan Degenhardt at Thompson Rivers University and published through TRU Open Press.
This work builds upon the 1st Canadian Edition, developed by the British Columbia Institute of Technology Nursing Faculty with support from BCcampus Open Education, and the original work created by Chippewa Valley Technical College (Amanda Egert, Kimberly Lee, and Manu Gill). The first edition of Open RN Nursing Pharmacology won an Award for Excellence from OE Global in 2020. For more information about the award, visit the 2020 OE Awards for Excellence site. We gratefully acknowledge the foundational contributions of these authors and institutions, whose commitment to open education has made this work possible.
This edition has been revised and expanded to better reflect Canadian nursing practice, contemporary pharmacological knowledge, and accessible, student-centred learning design. Updates include editorial revisions, structural reorganization, accessibility enhancements, and the integration of interactive and multimedia learning supports.
Third-Party Content
This textbook includes content carried over from previous editions, and adapted from third-party open educational resources. These materials are used under their respective licenses and are attributed within chapters or in footnotes where they appear.
- Anatomy and Physiology by OpenStax (CC BY 4.0)
- Microbiology by OpenStax (CC BY 4.0)
- Principles of Pharmacology by LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- DailyMed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (Public Domain)
- World Health Organization materials (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- Khan Academy / Stanford Medicine materials (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- Additional sources as cited throughout the text
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