[deftonez188]

Hey there,

Currently own the Nursing Constellation and Taber's, both are really nice, and very easy to navigate. I wanted to know if anyone had any other software programs they recommend as essential b/c of use at work, or school.

Considering getting: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
and Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care. (Ackley/Ladwig)

Anyone suggest these? are they worth picking up?

[midcom]

Are you a student? I have Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care& find it pretty good. It is a PDA version of one of the diagnosis books that is recommended here quite often.

I have the Lippincott book, not PDA though & it's very throrough. I use it for my case studies all the time. If the PDA version is anywhere close to the book, it would be a very useful program.
Dixie

[deftonez188]

Right, i'm a student about to start this semester, that's why i'm not sure what else would be useful.

I was wondering if the RNnotes and Lippincott were essentially the same thing.

[NJNursing]

I don't go a day without usint epocraties at work. First of all - it's free. You can get the 60 day trial on all of the lab result, diagnosis and symptom softwares which is great to use for a little while. It's costly to buy the full functioning program, but for the drug guide - it's fabulous.

[gradRN2007]

got to skyscape.com, great programs for school and afterwards
you can go from on program to another, procedures and diagnostics
hope it helps

[OldPhatMC]

Originally Posted by deftonez188

Hey there,

Currently own the Nursing Constellation and Taber's, both are really nice, and very easy to navigate. I wanted to know if anyone had any other software programs they recommend as essential b/c of use at work, or school.

Considering getting: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
and Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care. (Ackley/Ladwig)

Anyone suggest these? are they worth picking up?

I prefer the Nurses's Pocket Guide to Diagnosis, Intervention and Rationales. It's another Skyscape product, in the 1oth edition. I think its easier to use than the Ackley/Ladwig in PDA form, although the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is the better paper reference.

I can't recommend enough the PDA version of the Harriet Lane Handbook. If you work with the little baby humans regularly, this is as close to a smart pill as you will find.

Skyscape has the Archimedes calculator, which is a gem, and the Davis drug book in the Nursing constallation. I'm happy with them.

I prefer the Stedman's Dictionary, but the PDA version sucks. Would love to have the Miller-Keane as a PDA download.

My two centi-dollars

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