Helpful Apps for Home Health

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What are some helpful apps you have on your smart phone/ipod that you use for home health nursing? I have a new droid and would love to know how I could use it for work.

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Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing.

The apps I use most often at work (I have iPhone but I think many apps out there cater to all) are "The Pill Book", which I paid about 1.99 for. There are lots of good drug guides out there. iTriage to look up diseases and conditions, The Weather Channel is a must to keep on top of driving conditions, the timer, the calculator, the calendar to keep my schedule at my fingertips, a map app to find your way to new cases, and to pass the time: Netflix to see on-demand movies and TV shows working overnight, iPod, Amazon Kindle. Oh, and Bejeweled. Sadly, I am addicted to that. This is a very good question! I look forward to getting more suggestions.

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I gave found the RN Pocket Guide, WebMD, and the Merck Manual all quite helpful when I downloaded them to my iPhone. I am a perfectionist so I also made sure I downloaded Dictionary.

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I use Epocrates which is a drug/disease reference tool and has a great med interaction feature which I love. I use it on my iphone and it is so much easier than carrying a drug book in my bag all the time.

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Specializes in Transplant.

The Website http://www.ecare.com which is where one can find the NPI number of physicians.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Hospice, Disease Management.

Epocrates all the way the pill picture/viewer gives you the name of a pill just by describing it (number on it, shape, color, scored or not), there's a drug interaction part that's also great, they just added a dictionary and ICD 9 codes!! Its the best

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Specializes in General Med/Surg.

Really great, thanks!

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