Nursing Made Easier: Apps for Medical and Emergency Care

As handheld devices are becoming more popular, apps designed specifically for nurses are increase in number. NurseConnect takes a look at some of the most popular apps made specifically for nurses available and how they can make medical and emergency care easier.

Of the reviews, the one that seems to be most fitting for nurses is Nursing Central, a suite of applications made by Unbound Medicine. The goal of these apps is to make information rapidly accessible at the patient’s bedside. In emergency care, InformedRN was highlighted for its quality of information for emergency response.

These apps include information such as: 

• Drug guides
• Diseases and disorders
• Medical dictionaries
• Laboratories and diagnostics test information
• Poisons and emergency medications
• ECG rhythm images
• Hemodynamic values and stroke management
• Medication interactions

Many professional nurses and student nurses are benefiting from these apps. The article sites one RN who believes handheld devices and informational applications will help nurses improve patient care by reducing the time it takes to look up information in books or computers in the nursing stations.

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Do you agree with this topic? Are handheld apps beneficial at the bedside of a patient? What apps have you found the most helpful as a professional nurse? As a nursing student, do you use apps to help you study? Which ones? Let us know here or on the Stanbridge College Facebook.

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