General WisTech Open updates, as well as updates from each of their respective editors, for the first quarter can be found below. Note that the Open RN brand, textbooks, and related resources will all be maintained and sustained through WisTech Open. If you’d like to get involved or propose a new project, visit www.cvtc.edu/WisTech.

General Updates

• 📘 Nursing Pharmacology e-Book:
  Over 90,000 international users have contributed to more than 500,000 page views from June 1, 2020, to June 1, 2021. Over 1,000 affordable print versions have been sold nationally by XanEdu, with over 560 downloads of the free edited PDF.
• 📘 Nursing Skills e-Book:
  Published in Pressbooks and LibreTexts in May 2021. The optional, affordable print version was published by XanEdu on June 21, 2021, and is available in college bookstores and on Amazon. The edited print PDF is available for free download from XanEdu.
• 📘 Nursing Fundamentals e-Book:
  The review process by national reviewers has concluded. The e-book will be published in Pressbooks by July 1, 2021, with the affordable print version to follow later in the summer.
• 📘 Upcoming Textbooks:
  Development has begun for the Mental Health & Community Concepts and the Management & Professional Concepts textbooks. They are anticipated to be ready for review in Spring 2022.
• 🧩 Virtual Simulations:
  Online virtual simulations using H5P branching scenarios continue to be developed and embedded within the Open RN textbooks. Hyperlinks for these learning activities with CC BY licensing will continue to be added.
• 🕶️ Virtual Reality Development:
  Virtual reality scenarios are being developed in Acadicus VR software. A prototype teaching plan for the VR scenario "Cardiac Medication Administration to a Patient with Dementia" is available. Additional VR scenarios in development include safety, nitroglycerin administration, pediatric pain, and heart failure.