Nursing Apps

It’s very rare to see someone walking around without a phone in their hand. The amount of technology we have at our fingertips is extraordinary thanks to apps.  

1. Nursing Dictionary (FREE) - This app is a great dictionary with over 56,000 medical terms and multiple authoritative nursing dictionary’s including entries on the five-step nursing process.
2. Lab Values Medical references ($2.99) - This app is the top rated lab value and medical reference app. This will help with normal lab values and reasons for elevated and decreased values.
3. Figure 1 (FREE) - This app is a great resource for all medical personnel it categorizes different rare and common illness and questions treatment and diagnosis.
4. Nurse Grid (FREE) - This is a great app for nurse and their crazy schedule and frequent meetings, it was designed by a nurse for nurses.    
5. Nursing Essentials ($5.99)- This app is for all the way from beginners to advanced nurse that just need a good reference from EKG rhythms, drugs, and dosing.
6. Pocket Pharmacist (FREE) – Great resource for drug interactions, compatibility, warnings, dosing, and indications for use. I feel like this would be a very helpful app you can never have too much info on drugs.
7. Clinical exam (FREE) – This is a great simulation app that help look at different cases and scenarios.
8. Essential Skeleton (FREE) – There is no way anyone remembers all the names of the bones with this app you can look up specific bones.
9. Medical Abbreviations (FREE) – This helps nurses when that weird case comes in with the diagnosis or tumor you have never heard of.
10. Flashlight (FREE) – Most phones now come with a flash light, all nurses need a flashlight, if you work night shift they are great to have, if you can’t find your pen light this will help.
11. Convert any unit ($2.99) – Medications and IV fluids come in different units often with this app you can convert any unit from weight, volume, and length a nurses best friend.
12. Learn Muscles ($2.99) - Another great reference for nurse to review all the muscle of the human body.
13. Anatomy skill- circulatory system ($1.99) – All good nurse need to be able to start an IV, sometimes you can’t see them this will help you learn the anatomy and where veins are located.
14. Resuscitation (FREE) – This app is good for those that work in the critical care area to help them stay up to date on resuscitation measures.
15. Nurses pocket guide (FREE) - This app is an overall reference for nurses with a little bit of medications, lab values, and treatment for common diseases.
16. iTranslate ($6.99) – This app I personally have and it comes in handy not just in health care but in everyday life. Communication in health care is a very important thing that needs to be addressed.  
17. ECG (FREE) – Learning cardiac rhythms can be very challenging if you don’t see them often.  This app can help quiz and teach you different rhythms and keep you familiar.
18. STAT growth charts ($5.99) – Working in the pediatric world of nursing children’s growth and development is very important this app is a quick reference to these charts and the norm.
19. Nursing care plans (FREE) – We all love care plans and these can be very important in daily care for patients. This is a great guide to NANDA approved care plans.
20. Nursing timer (FREE) – When working with multiple patients it’s easy to forget about a pump or reevaluation of pain meds. This app helps nurses organize and set timers for different interventions very easily.