Can you recommend a PDA

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I'm in my next to last semester in NP school. We are required to purchase a PDA. I'd just as well get a pnone/PDA combo if I have to get one.Can anyone recommend one. I'm clueless!

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I have a Palm Centro with Verizon - very happy with it. You might try the computers and PDA forum too.

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I have a Palm Centro with Verizon - very happy with it. You might try the computers and PDA forum too.

Where is that forum located? How do I find it?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Here ya go:

https://allnurses.com/mobile-computing-nursing/

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Specializes in Family, ICU.

I use an HTC touch. This is also my phone. You can add up to 4gig mem so I also use it for mp3s... The only issue is when texting it is difficult to get used to. I have free apps from Merck Medicus which can be activated using your license number for RN at http://www.merckmedicus.com. I also have the free version of the med app from epocrates. These combine for more info than you could ever hope to apply. Hope this helps.

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.
I'm in my next to last semester in NP school. We are required to purchase a PDA. I'd just as well get a pnone/PDA combo if I have to get one.Can anyone recommend one. I'm clueless!

Ask your program what they recommend. Sometimes, there are bundled software offered to students at a discounted rate and at times they work best with a specific platform (i.e, Palm, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, or iPhone). I've used many different PDA's from my days as a staff nurse to my current advanced practice nursing position. Between Palm and Windows Mobile PDA's, I preferred Windows Mobile because of ease with interface with my PC. The hospital I work for provides smart phones to attendings and midlevel providers for free. We used to carry Palm Treos from Sprint. The functionality of the Palm was great but the phone reception was lousy and I think it was mainly a Sprint issue. We've since changed to Blackberry and I have to say I am really loving the Blackberry for ease with messaging. Company emails are easily retrieved and are incorporated into one messaging icon where texts and IM's are also received. Emailing with the Blackberry is a breeze. The phone also works great with crystal clear reception with Sprint service. I am not sure how compatible Blackberry is with most medical software but I have ePOCRATES on mine and it works great on it. Many of the surgical residents carry iPhones, it seems to be more popular with the younger crowd.

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I use the ATT Tilt with 8 MB of memory. I laughingly call it the world's smallest computer because it looks like a laptop that would fit in the palm of your hand. It is a Windows based system so it has a lot of compatibility with the software packages for NPs. I use it so much as a computer that I 'forget' to turn on the ringer of the cellphone when I am off duty. I can also tell you that my colleagues love to borrow it!

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I have a palm t/x -I know you said you wanted a combo phone/pda but here's the flip side. For NP clinicals I was in the local correctional facility -no phones allowed, but my Palm could come with me!

I'm not technologically hip, but this I love my palm-very intuitive!

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I have used both windows and palm platforms. I like the windows platform. I use a HP IPAQ it runs 299.00 at HP. I have been using a PDA since 2000, my husband can not for the life of him understand how I am totally lost without my " brain" . In clinicals every now and then my preceptor will say hey you got your other brain with you, LOL. But it is a personal choice

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