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Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. Nursing students will take this course in their third year as they prepare to assume a professional nursing role within the clinical health care environment. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles across Saskatchewan and Canada have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices are focused on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge required to empower them to meet the leadership challenges found within the incessantly changing Canadian health care environment. Assembling this information using an online format allows for the material to be updated regularly so as to keep pace with the rapid expansion of knowledge.

The specific goals of this textbook are:

1. to ensure the information is relevant to Saskatchewan nursing students,
2. to tailor the content to nursing students’ needs for both practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge,
3. to provide up-to-date evidence-informed content on nursing leadership,
4. to thread Aboriginal content throughout the textbook, and
5. to tailor the textbook to the curriculum.

This textbook offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to managerial communication, designed for college and polytechnic students preparing for leadership roles in today’s diverse, digital, and team-based workplaces. Blending foundational theory with practical strategies, the book equips learners with the tools they need to communicate clearly, professionally, and ethically across a variety of business contexts.

Key topics include professional and workplace communication foundations, team collaboration and leadership communication, intercultural competence, inclusive and respectful language, and the use of AI in writing and editing. Students will learn to plan and revise business documents such as emails, memos, reports, and proposals, and develop strong presentation and public speaking skills. Special attention is given to communication in virtual environments, writing with clarity and purpose, using visual aids effectively, and conducting and participating in interviews. With a focus on real-world application and workplace readiness, this textbook helps students build the communication confidence needed to lead teams, manage relationships, and contribute meaningfully in a variety of professional settings.

The Saskatchewan Polytechnic Open Education OER by Discipline Directory lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by academic programs available at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. This directory is updated as new resources are identified.

This Pressbooks Guide builds on information provided in the Pressbooks User Guide published by Pressbooks.com. It follows the steps an author might take to create or modify an open educational resource (OER) in Pressbooks. Each chapter points readers to the pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks User Guide, provides any additional information, and includes instructions specific to post-secondary faculty and staff working in Saskatchewan Polytechnic.

The Physical Geology Workbook (First USask Edition) is a companion workbook to the Physical Geology Textbook (First USask Edition by Karla Panchuk, 2019; adapted from “Physical Geology” by Steven Earle, 2015). It contains learning outcomes, vocabulary, and review questions that students can use to enhance their learning experiences in 100-level university geology courses. Topics include plate tectonics, rock cycle, minerals, weathering, igneous rock, metamorphism, sedimentary processes, volcanoes, geological structures, earthquakes, glaciation, Earth-system change, geological time, and mass wasting. The workbook also includes appendices for students to review and assess their high school background in topics in chemistry, physics, math, geography, and biology that they will use in 100-level physical geology courses. The text and the workbook are geared toward students studying at Canadian institutions of higher education, and contain examples of geological features and phenomena from across Canada and around the world.

A learning resource to help USask educators reshape their teaching practices by using the principles and approaches of UDL.

Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster is an accompaniment to an online course with the same title. The first four chapters provide an overview of fundamental concepts and phenomena that have led us to our current online information environment. Chapter 1, Information Disorder, examines information and its evolution, looking briefly at historical and contemporary trends in the areas of misinformation, disinformation, online propaganda and more. Chapter 2, Information Distribution, provides a simple overview of the news industry including journalism and editing, as well as the progression of fake news–a politicized concept which is leading us into a post-truth world. Chapter 3, Information Automation, takes readers through the automatic aspects of information exploration, examining search engines, algorithms, and associated concepts. Chapter 4, Information Manipulation, explores human interactions with information, focusing on how humans share, consume, and interact with information on social media. Each chapter provides the reader with a base level of a specific literacy (information, media, digital and meta) making them better equipped to confront disinformation. The final chapter provides readers with various frameworks and tools for effectively evaluating information and suggests that readers integrate them into their online search behaviors.