Acknowledgement

I would like to thank the OPEN OCO Pressbooks community, the Online Consortium of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education for providing the opportunity to complete this project.

I would also like to thank Dr. Joy Bauer at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College Innovations Center and for her encouragement and collaboration and for enthusiastically sharing her expertise with me.

Also lastly, I would like to thank Dr. Norma Graciella Cuellar who introduced me to the importance of the social determinants of health in nursing and nursing education.

Without their contributions, I could not have completed this OER Textbook for our nursing students and faculty. For these reasons, I extend to them a big thank-you!