Top 5 iPhone Apps for Registered Nurses

[responsive] [/responsive]Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the information you need in one place? If you are a  Registered Nurse, you know that it isn’t easy and can be very stressful to implement patient care plans. Having to sift through several textbooks and spiral bound assessment books for medical information just adds to it. Horizon Healthcare Staffing is here to try and alleviate some of that stress.  Take a look at our list of the top 5 iPhone Apps for Registered Nurses. Click on the link to download the App from the Apple store.

Epocrates

Epocrates is a mobile drug app used by many U.S. physicians. This app provides you with quick access to drug, disease, and diagnostic information including point of care. It contains thousands of prescription, generic, and OTC drugs. This app also features calculations and current medical information, news, and research.

Nurse’s Pocket Guide

This app gives you quick access to diagnoses, prioritized interventions, and rationales that help you quickly assess patients and determine the proper diagnosis and treatment directly at the point of care.

This quick-reference resource includes details on nursing process and its application, sample care plans, assessment tools, documentation and over 800 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses and interventions. Each diagnosis includes a definition, desired outcomes, risk factors, actions/interventions, documentation focus, and more.

Nursing Essentials

This app is specifically designed for nurses. It provides a wide range of information assessment, including abbreviations and definitions, conversion tools, immunizations, medications, and anatomy. This app gives you the “nursing essentials”.

Nursing Central

Nursing Central gives you access to detailed information on diseases, tests, and procedures. You can consult their comprehensive database of 4,600 drugs or refer to more than 56,000 dictionary terms whenever you have a question. Search more than 17 million journal articles through Unbound Medline, or keep up with various nursing journals on your iPhone.

Nursing Central integrates:

– Taber’s Medical Dictionary
– Davis’s Drug Guide
– Diseases & Disorders
– Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests
– Unbound MEDLINE

Skyscape

The free Skyscape app comes loaded with a valuable package of medical resources, including drug information, medical calculators and clinical information on over 850 topics. Skyscape allows you to purchase more than 600 premium resources in 35 medical specialties and access all of them from within the app.

Included for Free:

– Comprehensive information on thousands of brands and generics, with interactions (including multi-drug analyzer tool), pill images and over 400 integrated dosing calculators.

– Medical calculator with more than 200 interactive tools, organized by specialty.

– Evidence-based clinical information on hundreds of diseases and symptom-related topics, presented in convenient outline format.

– In-context and specialty-focused journal summaries, trial results, breaking clinical news, drug alerts and other information, fully integrated with the app’s global search and SmartLink.

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