Introduction

Welcome to Career Cornerstones: Establishing a Foundation for a Career in Healthcare. This book was created for students entering their respective health profession’s program. This book is designed to help students be successful not only in their health profession’s educational program, but also as they start to intern or work in healthcare settings.

How Open Educational Resources (OER) work

This book has been adapted from multiple OER resources.  You can find out information regarding all of the resources utilized in this book at the end of every chapter in the “References and Attributions” sections.

Students: This OER book  has interactive content is built into each chapter that is available only in the online format.  If using a PDF copy or EPUB version of this book, you will be directed to a hyperlink to access the interactive content.  At the end of each chapter is a vocabulary list of associated terms related to chapter’s content. The interactive reinforcement activities may require you to click, drag and drop, and/or watch videos.

Faculty and teaching staff: While this OER book was curated and created for Healthcare Administration, Health Sciences, and Pre-Professional students, our hope is that you will take this OER and customize it for your program and share again.

Career Cornerstones: Establishing a Foundation for a Career in Healthcare citation:

Nelson, A., & Greene, K. (2023). Career Cornerstones: Establishing a Foundation for a Career in Healthcare. University of West Florida Pressbooks. https://pressbooks.uwf.edu/healthcarecareerfoundations

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