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Top Ten Mobile Apps For Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
If you’ve been working in medicine for very long, you already know that the field has been a little slow on the uptake when it comes to adopting new technologies. And by slow, we mean “molasses at the North Pole” slow. It’s nothing to find hospitals still struggling to adopt medical information systems from the late nineties.
But the medical software field has slowly been gathering steam. If there is still a lot of institutional resistance to making big changes, the smartphone revolution has moved many of the obstacles out of the way for individual practitioners to adapt the latest and greatest healthcare information technologies.
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Top Ten Mobile Apps For Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
If you’ve been working in medicine for very long, you already know that the field has been a little slow on the uptake when it comes to adopting new technologies. And by slow, we mean “molasses at the North Pole” slow. It’s nothing to find hospitals still struggling to adopt medical information systems from the late nineties.
31 Top Mobile Apps for Nurse Practitioners
Access to evidence-based information enhances the nurse practitioner’s ability to deliver high-quality, safe, and effective care. With the breadth of information available on the Internet, clinicians can often wonder where to find the best reference tools.
8 Smart Phone Apps for Nurse Practitioners
Suggestions from Dr. Melissa DeCapua. She started her career as a psychiatric nurse practitioner (PMHNP), graduating from Vanderbilt University and completing a doctorate in nursing practice (DNP).
Doximity
Doximity helps over 1 million healthcare professionals take the friction out of everyday challenges that are unique to clinicians. The tools you already use, conveniently in one place and designed to make your life a little bit easier.
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View and discuss real-world medical cases with healthcare professionals from every specialty on Figure 1.
AHRQ ePSS
The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is an application designed and developed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Nation's lead Federal agency for research on health care quality, costs, outcomes and patient safety.
ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus
The updated ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus uses up to date science and user feedback to help a clinician and patient build a customized risk lowering plan by estimating and monitoring change in 10-year ASCVD risk.
CDC Vaccine Schedules
Quick access from CDC to ACIP-recommended immunization schedules, complete with footnotes. Intended for healthcare professionals recommending and administering vaccines to infants, children, adolescents, and adults.
Eponyms
Eponyms brings a short description of about 1800 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym.
FP Notebook
Family Practice Notebook is a rapid access, point-of-care medical reference for primary care and emergency clinicians.
Lab Values Medical Reference
The lab reference app with by far the most features on the app store!
MedCalc
MedCalc is a medical calculator that gives you easy access to complicated medical formulas, scores, scales and classifications. MedCalc has been available on mobile platforms for more than a decade, so it leverages years of experience in bringing medical equations to physicians in an easy to use, yet very powerful format.
MPR
Optimize medication management with MPR’s drug database with real-time updates, news feed and efficient clinical tools
Pedi STAT
Decision support tool for managing critically ill children.
STD Tx Guide
The STD Treatment (Tx) Guidelines mobile app serves as a quick reference guide for doctors and related parties on the identification of and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Visor
Visor is a low vision magnifier app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android that turns your smartphone and tablet into a fully featured magnifier for visually impaired people.
Epocrates
Over a million healthcare professionals depend on Epocrates to quickly and easily access trusted, clinical information at that critical point of decision.
Medscape
Access what you need, when you need it
PEPID
PEPID Professional Nursing Suite (RN Pro) gives nurses an easy way to bring all the information they need to make accurate decisions to the bedside '' improving quality, safety and efficiency of care. Written by nurses for nurses, RN Pro contains nursing considerations and diagnoses in clinical topics and drug content.
Skyscape
Skyscape trusted resources are a fully-integrated solution that leverages our SmartLink functionality. So busy nurse practitioners can "link-like-they-think" among hundreds of different nursing and medical resources - from dictionaries and clinical and drug guides to drug interaction analyzers and lab interpretations manuals.
uCentral
uCentral is an integrated web and mobile solution that helps clinicians quickly answer etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis questions using the latest evidence-based research.
UpToDate
UpToDate is the leading clinical decision support resource with evidence-based clinical information – including drug topics and recommendations that clinicians rely on at the point of care.
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