Discipline specific OER for academics

Nursing and Midwifery

This page is designed to support academics with teaching by providing a wealth of OER specifically for Nursing and Midwifery.

Explore our curated collection that highlights Australian OER, and resources on the following topics:

• Clinical Nursing Skills and Procedures
• End of Life Care
• Health Interventions and Management
• Leadership in Nursing
• Midwifery
• Nursing Education and Teaching
• Nursing Fundamentals
• Nutrition in Nursing

NOTE: While there is currently limited Australian-specific OER on these subjects, we encourage you to explore international OER and consider adapting these materials to better suit local contexts and curriculum needs.

Clinical Nursing Skills and Procedures 

• Nursing Skills by Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman (Eds.) (2021), Chippewa Valley Technical College, is licensed under CC BY 4.0 
• Critical Care Compendium by LITFL (2024), is licensed under CC BY-NS-SA 4.0
• Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care by Glynda Rees Doyle and Jodie Anita McCutcheon (2015), BCcampus, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Nursing Advanced Skills by Ernstmeyer & Christman (2023) Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN), is licensed under CC BY

Cultural Safety

• Cultural Safety in Health: Professional Practice, Pedagogy & Research by various academic authors (2025) CC BY-NC 4.0

End of Life Care

• Nursing Care at the End of Life by Emerald Charity Bilbrew, Jody Vogelzang and Kelli Whittington (2024), OpenStax, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Health Interventions and Management

• Field Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox by Peter G. Smith Richard H. Morrow and David A. Ross (2015), Oxford University Press, is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
• Monitoring Diabetes and High Blood Pressure: Improving lives by inspiring change by Dr. Stella Nemusesco (2021), is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Community and Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action by Andrea Reed et al. (2023) is licensed under CC BY

Leadership in Nursing 

Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing by Joan Wagner (2018), University of Regina Press, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Midwifery 

• Comprehensive Midwifery: The role of the midwife in health care practice, education, and research by Eileen K. Hutton, Beth Murray-Davis, Elaine Carty, Karyn Kaufman and Michelle Butler (2017), The e-Book Foundry @ McMaster University, is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

Nursing Education and Teaching

• Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students by Linda Frederiksen and Sue F. Phelps (2017), Rebus Community, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions by Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park and Beth Perry (2015), Athabasca University, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Nursing Fundamentals 

• Nursing Fundamentals 2e by Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman (Eds.) (2024), Chippewa Valley Technical College, is licensed under CC BY 4.0 
• Nursing Management and Professional Concepts 2e by Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman (Eds.) (2024), Chippewa Valley Technical College, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Nutrition in Nursing 

• Nutrition for Nurses by Emerald Charity Bilbrew, Jody Vogelzang and Kelli Whittington (2024), OpenStax, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Where to find more OER?

There are many platforms available that contain OER, the platforms listed below are a good starting place to find resources on nursing and midwifery.

• GW Nursing
  Collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) for use by nurse educators worldwide. These interactive multimedia learning materials are outcomes of several grant-funded research projects sponsored by the US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
• Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
  Helping to close the gap by providing the evidence base to inform practice and policy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Includes reports, journal articles and a range of sources.
• Lowitja Institute LitSearch
  Search tool provides access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health literature in PubMed. Refine your search to “Open Access” or select "Free Access" and check the license of individual article before reusing the content.
• Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
  Open public health courses and materials from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
• MedEdPORTAL: : The Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources
  Open-access, peer-reviewed teaching materials for health professions education. Also includes iCollaborative, educational resources that have not undergone the formal MedEdPORTAL peer review process. MedEdPORTAL is included in Medline.
• National Academies Press 
  Books published by the National Academies Press can be downloaded for free in PDF format. Search the Health and Medicine collection.
• The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
  Collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.