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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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
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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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.
Any of these (or other apps you know of) have really top notch images of diseases?
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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
NextRx is a free app that lets you quickly calculate refill dates on prescriptions. Handy for controlled substances.
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
This is great! Visiting Nurse Service of New York RN and Blogger Amy Dixon Drouin did a top ten list for caregivers that may be of interest: http://blogs.vnsny.org/2010/06/20/ten-iphone-apps-for-creative-caregivers/
i really like this iste hanks
I love this list. I have been a scrub for 6 years and have been using OR Mentor Pro to help me along.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/or-mentor-pro/id475148731?mt=8
I hope this helps
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