CQUniversity nursing students have expressed pride that their new textbooks feature major contributions by their own lecturers - even some of the illustrations feature staff members they have met...

After taking a key role in development of 'Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing', our academics have been celebrating news that it is now the standard nursing text in more than half of Australia's universities.

Pearson representative Mandy Sheppard (front left) celebrates the project's success with CQUniversity contributors (clockwise from back right) Kadie Cheyney, Jennifer Jones, Lorna Moxham, Diane Goldsworthy, Trudy Dwyer, Sandra Walker, Judy Applegarth and Kerry Reid-Searl

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Pearson Education's nursing list new acquisitions editor, Mandy Sheppard visited Rockhampton this week (Nov 18) to update progress on what is the first Australian edition of the new 3-volume textbook.

Ms Sheppard said that, although the textbook was a nationwide collaboration, CQUniversity academics have been central to its development.

"I've come up today to celebrate the launch and to walk through some of the on-line resources that support students and instructors," she said. "It's been picked up at more than half the universities against some stiff competition so it's been a real success.

"The textbook is designed as a complete package to support both instructors and students. The MyNursingKit website gives students access to a range of self-study resources and a range of Indigenous health videos and skills videos which are important for revision.

Lorna Moxham, Kerry Reid-Searl and Trudy Dwyer with the new volumes and (below) some of the illustrations featuring CQUniversity staff

"The book package gives instructors a one-stop-shop to access a range of instructional resources like powerpoints and a test-bank etc. It's a great package designed to be really portable since it's produced in 3 volumes rather than one heavy volume. We include access to an e-book on-line in case they leave their hard-copy book at home."

CQUniversity Nursing academics Associate Professor Lorna Moxham, Dr Trudy Dwyer and Dr Kerry Reid-Searl have contributed as unit coordinating authors and chapter contributions have come from Dr Sandra Walker, Judith Applegarth and Associate Professor Peter Reaburn.

"So far the students have been excited to open the textbooks and see so many lecturers from CQUniversity involved in the writing and seeing the photos of staff," Dr Dwyer said.

"This has given them a real buzz and a great sense of ownership of the text when they take it out into the clinical environment."