Preface
About This Book
Author
This book was developed by remixing existing open educational resources and building additional content from evidence-based sources by:
- Julia Brown, MS Biology, MS Education, Chippewa Valley Technical College
Editors
This book was edited by:
- Kimberly Ernstmeyer, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE, APNP-BC
- Dr. Elizabeth Christman, DNP, RN, CNE
Graphics Editor
The graphics in this book were edited by:
- Nic Ashman, MLIS, Librarian, Chippewa Valley Technical College
Workgroup Members and Contributors
Contributors reviewed chapters as they were developed or otherwise assisted in the development of this book:
- Mary Bauer, MS, Chippewa Valley Technical College
- Kelly Carpenter, MLIS, Moraine Park Technical College
- Jane Flesher, MST, Chippewa Valley Technical College
- Angela Landry, MSN, RN, Waukesha County Technical College
- Vince Mussehl, WisTech Open Project Director, Chippewa Valley Technical College
- Claire Rueckheim, MS, Western Technical College
- Diane Witt-Rose, MS, Chippewa Valley Technical College
Peer Reviewers
The names of the peer reviewers will be added here.
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Attributions
Some of the content for this textbook was adapted from the following open educational resources. For specific reference information about what was used and/or changed in this adaptation, please refer to the footnotes in the book.
- Betts, J. G., Young, K. A., Wise, J. A., Johnson, E., Poe, B., Kruse, D. H., Korol, O., Johnson, J. E., Womble, M., & DeSaix, P. (2022). Anatomy and physiology 2e. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology-2e
- National Institutes of Health. (n.d.). DailyMed. U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/
- Parker, N., Schneegurt, M., Tu, A.-Hue T., Forster, B. M., & Lister, P. (2016). Microbiology. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/microbiology/pages/1-introduction
- Ernstmeyer, K., & Christman, E. (Eds.). (2024). Medical terminology 2e. Open RN | WisTech Open. https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/medterm/
- Ernstmeyer, K., & Christman, E. (Eds.). (2023). Nursing skills 2e. Open RN. https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingskills/
- Lapum, J., St-Amant, O., Hughes, M., Tan, A., Bogdan, A., Dimaranan, F., Frantzke, R., & Savicevic, N. (2019). The scholarship of writing in nursing education: 1st Canadian edition. Toronto Metropolitan University Pressbooks. https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/scholarlywriting/
Suggested Attribution Statement
Content that is not taken from the above OER should include the following attribution statement:
Brown, Julia. (2025). General Anatomy and Physiology. (K. Ernstmeyer and E. Christman, Eds.) by Chippewa Valley Technical College is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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