A Nurses Guide To Nursing

PDA’s have become a nurse’s best tool to retrieve fast and accurate information. From nursing students to Nurse Practitioner’s PDA’s have proven to be a very useful gadget to have in their pockets. Not only are they small and compact, making them easy to carry around in coats, but they also are able to carry tons of useful information ranging from medical dictionaries, to nursing textbooks that can be used for referrences.

I personally started using a PDA as I was ending nursing school. Almost immediately i noticed the usefulness and quickness of using a PDA and wondered how I ever got through nursing school with out it. I mostly used it as a drug referrence as I had my clinicals instead of carrying my big drug book around I was able to find a useful program for my PDA called ePocrates Rx. ePocrates Rx comes in two version and free one which is a comprehensive drug guide for PalmOS and ePocrates Rx Pro which you can purchase and use on both Palm PDA’s and Windows. The other great thing about this program is that they offer free updates so that medications stay current, dosing on medications is shown for both adult and pediatrics. Although there are many other medication programs for PDA’s out there, ePocrates has been a very usefull tool for me to have in my nursing career.

PDA’s have many other useful tools like medical referrence book and even medical calculators for IV medication dosing. Other uses for PDA’s is that you can use the planner and also their address book to keep all your contacts available at a moments disposal. If considering purchasing one of these cool and useful gadgets you will find many different kinds and prices so make sure you do your research and see whats out there and get a PDA that’s right for you.