Book Title: Fundamentals of Nursing Pharmacology – 1st Canadian Edition

Fundamentals of Nursing Pharmacology - 1st Canadian Edition Copyright © 2023 by Chippewa Valley Technical College; Amanda Egert; Kimberly Lee; and Manu Gill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

© 2023 Amanda Egert, Manu Gill and Kimberly Lee

Nursing Pharmacology: A Conceptual Approach – 1st Canadian Edition was adapted by Amanda Egert, Manu Gill and Kimberly Lee from Nursing Pharmacology © 2020 by Chippewa Valley Technical College (edited by Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman), which is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

The Creative Commons licence permits you to retain, reuse, copy, redistribute, and revise this book—in whole or in part—for free providing the author is attributed as follows:

This adaptation includes the following changes and additions which are © 2023 by Amanda Egert, Manu Gill, and Kimberly Lee and are licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence:

• Overall revising text to make it fit a British Columbia and Canadian context. This included reordering, renaming, adding, and removing chapters and sections as needed.
• Moving list of key terms from end of each chapter to the beginning and compiling definitions at the end of the book.

The following sections are original content by Amanda Egert, Kimberly Lee, and Manu Gill:

• Chapter 2.6 Safe Medication Administration
• Chapter 3.3 Conditions and Diseases Related to Infection
• Chapter 4.3 Conditions and Disease of the ANS
• Chapter 7.2 Gastrointestinal Elimination Concepts
• Chapter 7.3 Conditions and Diseases of the Gastrointestinal System
• Chapter 7.4 Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making for Gastrointestinal Elimination
• Chapter 9.3 Conditions and Diseases Related to Metabolic Regulation
• All sections under the “Resources” chapter at the end of the book.

In addition, content has been adapted from the following sources and incorporated into various chapters. Content from these sources is attributed at the end of the chapter it appears in or in a footnote:

• Anatomy and Physiology by OpenStax is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Daily Med by U.S. National Library of Medicine is available in the public domain.
• Digesting Food by Stanford School of Medicine and Khan Academy is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
• Medication Safety in High Risk Situations by World Health Organization is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
• Medication Safety in Polypharmacy by World Health Organization is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
• Medication Safety in Transition of Care by World Health Organization is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
• Medicines by Design by US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Microbiology by Open Stax is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Pharmacology Notes: Nursing Implications for Clinical Practice by Gloria Velarde is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
• Principles of Pharmacology by LibreTexts is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
• The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education (1st Canadian Edition) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disability & Mental illness by Sheri Melrose is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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