Hospitals and nurses are turning more and more to mobile devices to deliver efficient, high-quality patient care.
As acute nurse practitioner and trauma nurse specialist Andrew Bowman attests, “I could not function professionally or personally without my handheld devices to help me manage all the things that I have to do.”
Here are ten must-have iPhone apps for nurses that are tops on Bowman’s list:
1. Epocrates Essentials: A complete drug reference including herbals and OTCs, disease database, pill identifier, drug interaction guide, lab test reference and infectious disease guide. Replaces several books one might need for similar information.
2. Eponyms: Don’t know what Wunderlich’s Syndrome is? Look it up quickly with Eponyms.
3. Infuse: A drug infusion calculator. Allows nurses to build their own hospital database of standard concentrations. Then, when needed, nurses plug in the patient’s weight and dose desired, and an infusion rate is immediately provided. Nurses can also change on the fly in case they have to double concentrate their hospital standard preparations.
4. MedCalc: A free medical calculator
5. Memos: Especially great if converting to iPhone from a Palm device. Allows nurses to transfer their Palm-based memos to a format read by iPhone. “I had more than 1,200 memos and this was a HUGE time-saver,” says Bowman.
6. OB Wheel: A quick calculator to determine gestational age and EDC
7. PediSTAT: Think of it as the Broselow tape for the iPhone. Plug in the child’s age or weight and instantly you have a guide to airway equipment sizes, drug dosages, fluid/blood resuscitation, seizure treatment, normal vitals, sedation dosing, pain management and more.
8. ACLS Advisor: A guide to current ACLS guidelines
9. PALS Advisor: A guide to current PALS guidelines
10. Nursing Central: Geared more toward nurses. Includes a drug guide, lab and diagnostic test reference, diseases and disorders reference, handbook of nursing diagnoses and Taber’s dictionary.
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By uberVU - social comments on December 7, 2009 at 11:36 am
Take a look at how we are changing communications at the point of care. Sarasota Memorial Hospital has completed their pilot and are expanding into three addtional units. http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091026/VIDEO/910262006&template=video
By Rob Campbell on December 8, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I couldn’t help but notice that you omitted Lexi-Comp. You may want to check out the apps for both nurses and APNs here: http://www.lexi.com/individuals/
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By SCRUBS: Top 10 iPhone Apps for Nurses - iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends on December 10, 2009 at 3:50 am
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By Mark on December 10, 2009 at 3:52 am
are there any nursing apps like these for the BlackBerry? I have tried to dl epocrates, but it never lets me get to the final “download now” phase.
By Ani on December 12, 2009 at 2:17 am
Any of these (or other apps you know of) have really top notch images of diseases?
By M Rossi on December 15, 2009 at 7:52 am
[...] According to one acute care nurse practitioner, an iPhone is as good as carrying around a bookshelf of references-as there are applications for disease and syndrome names, lab and diagnostic values, drug summaries, and calculators which, among other things, allow a nurse to text-in a child’s age and weight, and retrieve information about airway equipment sizes, drug doses, normal vitals, sedation dosing, et al.(Pedistat). MORE [...]
By Nurses’ Picks for Top Phone Apps | Medical Automation healthcare automation, equitable healthcare, medical automation conferences, medical automation experts, multiple pages, biomedicine, informatics, nano-technologies, process management, individua on January 11, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Good read and I do agree, but by far the best nursing app is Nurse Tabs. It is foar more practical than most of the other nurse apps you have listed. I use it on the floor as a reference and has helped build my confidence every day. Thanks, B. Thornhill
By William Thornhill on April 19, 2010 at 7:12 pm
NextRx is a free app that lets you quickly calculate refill dates on prescriptions. Handy for controlled substances.
By Angella on May 6, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Drug DB is a good drug database app, especially if you’re not a doctor. They have pretty good drug coverage and hypertext definitions for med jargon.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drug-db/id371352774?mt=8
By Mark on June 3, 2010 at 5:38 pm