Acknowledgements

This is our second Open Educational Resource (OER) with Pressbooks.  After seeing how greatly our previous OER book, Medical Terminology for Healthcare Professions, was received by our students along with the incredible textbook cost savings of having a free OER, we decided to make another OER for the cornerstone course in the University of West Florida’s (UWF)Health Sciences and Administration Program. For this OER, we were pleased to receive an ACE (Adapt, Create, Engage) Award to develop this book sponsored by the UWF Library and the UWF Center for Teaching Learning and Technology.  Once again we were lucky to have our Health Sciences librarian, Cindy Gruwell, serve as our mentor and advisor. We are so happy that the creation of this book will save our students here, and elsewhere, on textbook costs while also allowing them to have continued access to this book after their course ends.

Andrea M. Nelson, PT, DPT, CLT, GCS Emeritus, University of West Florida

anelson@uwf.edu

Katherine Greene, MPH, University of West Florida

kgreene2@uwf.edu

Thanks and Gratitude

We give our biggest thanks and appreciation to all of the authors from which our OER book was adapted. Since this list is very long, we decided to include these attributions at the end of each corresponding chapter.

We very thankful for the support from the University of West Florida’s Division of Academic Affairs for encouraging OER material creation and adoption on campus.  We especially would like to thank our current Provost Dr. Gary Liguori,  our former Provost Dr. George Ellenberg, and our current Vice-Provost Dr. Michelle Williams, for supporting OERs and allowing the ACE award to be established.

We wish to thank Stephanie Clark, Dean of Libraries at the University of West Florida, for encouraging faculty to create and use OER materials in their courses, for establishing a relationship with Pressbooks and for establishing the ACE award for OER development at UWF.

We also wish to thank Michelle Horton, Executive Director of the University of West Florida’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, for partnering with the UWF Library in the development of the ACE award for OER development.

We extend our gratitude to Cindy Gruwell, Associate Librarian/Coordinator of Scholarly Communication and Health Sciences Librarian at the University of West Florida, for all of her support, assistance, and guidance through the process of revising, updating, and publishing our OER book.

We appreciate the support of Angela Hahn, Chair of the Health Sciences and Administration Department at the University of West Florida, in taking on this project to lessen textbook costs for students across campus taking our cornerstone course,  Career Essentials for Healthcare.

We sincerely appreciate the talent of Samantha Anderson, Graduate Assistant in the Health Sciences and Administration Department at the University of West Florida, with the creation of H5P activities within the book and editing assistance.

We are very thankful for the peer review and editorial suggestions from Amy Dunckel, Physical Therapist and Adjunct Instructor in the Health Sciences and Administration Department at the University of West Florida.

We appreciate the assistance of Sara Kent, Director of Operations for the Center for Behavioral Analysis at the University of West Florida, with sharing her knowledge of the field of Applied Behavior Analysis.

We would also like to thank Karen Valaitis, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences and Administration Department at the University of West Florida, for her continued advocacy and push in our department for adopting OER materials for our students.

Lastly, we would like to acknowledge Denise Seabert, Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Fresno State University. Without her encouragement, we would not have been brought together. We truly appreciate all that you have done for both of us.