Open Educational Resources at RTC: Health and Human Services

Free course materials on the following topics: pharmacy, nursing, nutrition, public health, veterinary medicine, and more.

Anatomy and Physiology is a dynamic textbook for the two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors.

Free lectures and courses on Allied Health

Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care was developed to ensure best practice and quality care based on the latest evidence, and to address inconsistencies in how clinical health care skills are taught and practised in the clinical setting. The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current.

Open Education Resources for Nursing is a project led by Chippewa Valley Technical College
The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios.

Many of the books published by the National Academies Press can be downloaded for free in PDF format. Search the Health and Medicine collection. Site requires that you provide name and email.

Free resources on massage therapy, nutrition, and anatomy and physiology.

This course covers two important areas of knowledge that are required for employment in the medical coding and billing field: medical insurance and pharmacology. Medical Insurance helps us pay for office visits, tests, drugs, and surgical procedures. Understanding how medical insurance works will not only help those who are employed in the healthcare industry but every person who needs medical care!

This course will help your students build a medical vocabulary applicable to specialty fields, major diseases, physical examination terms, diagnosis and treatment.