PDA help

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trying to decide on a PDA....any suggestions?? I will be a

LVN grad in December and will start the RN bridge program next year. I need it for school and work......:nurse:

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I love my Palm Tungsten E2... but then again, it's 2 years old AND I got it for 1/2 cost because the seal had been broken on the box.

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What great timing! I was just coming on to post the same question. Our phone contracts will be up soon, and I'm trying to figure out if I should get a phone/PDA combo.

How many students out there use the PDA for classes, and how many nurses use it for work? Is it necessary or at least very handy?

Also, if you have a PDA, what type do you recommend? And what software? I'm thinking a drug guide would be handy. Anything else?

I'd also love to hear from Austin nurses at the area hospitals. Anything specific to job location?

Thanks!

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I have both an Dell Axim x30 high (624 mhz) and a Cingular 8525 cellphone (pda/phone combo). I bought my Dell Axim for my undergraduate degree 2 years ago when I used to carry just a regular cell-phone. It was such a hassle to carry both. The size of my pda is too huge to just carry in my pocket. My pda has been sitting on my desk at home in the charging cradle collecting dust.

I started my first semester of my nursing program a few weeks ago. I carry just my pda/phone, and it phreaking ROCKS! I can look up drugs/diseases in a jiffy. PDA phones are quite pricey.... If you break/lose it, you lose two devices in one. I'm not much of a Palm interface fan, so that is why I stuck with my Windows Mobile based PDA phone.

-Paul :-)

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ok so now I am jealous........:)

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I have both an Dell Axim x30 high (624 mhz) and a Cingular 8525 cellphone (pda/phone combo). . . . I'm not much of a Palm interface fan, so that is why I stuck with my Windows Mobile based PDA phone.

-Paul :-)

Where's the eyes-glazing-over icon? :D

I'll send this info to my husband, my Tech Guy. He can decipher it and retell it to me in plain, sloooooooow English.

I'm so behind on this particular technology. I won't even begin to tell you how I fare at Guitar Hero. :eek:

Thanks for the input!

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I use my pda phone Palm centro from Sprint. I use it for everything. (Using it to type this actually.) In clinicals everyone use to ask me to look up something for them.

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Specializes in Trauma Administration/Level I Trauma.

My Treo750 serves me well...

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I have a palm e2

The software package is nursing central. The software was 150. and it came with Davis drug guide, Taber's medical encyclopedia, lab values, disease & disorders and medline journals.

I never use the journals and rarely the disease & diagnosis.

The drug guide and med encyclopedia are worth gold! well...actually about 50. each (if you buy separately)

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I have the palm centro (sprint) and it is very user friendly and accepts new applications quite easily. If you are able to upgrade through your cell provider, check out their pda's.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

I'm a blackberry fanatic - sturdy, durable (dropped many times) and has tons of available software.

Caveats to all - many hospitals are beginning to clamp down on the use of personal cell phones in the workplace. Some even forbid nurses to carry them while doing patient care. Especially those with built-in cameras!!! So - it may be wise to use a 'not obviously a cell phone' type of PDA -- like a Palm or 'Berry. It would cause less comment, and you wouldn't get patients saying that 'the nurse was just using her cell phone all the time'.

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Specializes in OR Internship starting in Jan!!.

I have an iPhone. There are already a few different options for looking up drugs, and doing med calcs. The app store hasn't been open for long, so I suspect there will be many more options soon.

Email, internet, text messages ... works for me!

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