Top 10 iPhone Apps for Nurses & Nursing Students

A.D.A.M. Symptom Navigator

This free iPhone app works just as well for health care consumers as it does for nurses and nursing students. The app offers possible causes for each symptom, what you can do for it, and when to get immediate medical help. This is especially good for students or nurses who work in home health care. This app is free.

Epocrates Rx

This free app includes a drug guide, information on formulations and lets you check drug interactions. Free updates keep you current on the latest information. Never be uncertain again when faced with patients who are taking multiple medications.

iChart

This iPhone app is not free; it has a considerable price tag on it. However, iChart allows you to keep track of patient charts, medication lists and more for all the patients you are working with. It is like having a personal medical assistant in your pocket. The app is updated regularly with all the new medical data that is published so you're never out of date.

NCLEX-RN Medications

For nursing students, this app can't be beat. The low price makes it affordable for every student. Instead of using flash cards to learn the medications portion of your NCLEX exam, use this app! Each card contains the drug name, indications, treatments, considerations and more. A quizzing ability lets you check your knowledge.

Netter's Flash Cards

Netter's offers many different sets of flash cards for the iPhone. Anatomy, musculoskeletal, neurology and more are at your fingertips with this incredible set of study aids. The cost isn't as cheap as the last recommended app, but it isn't as expensive as iChart. Easy to navigate, you can study the information and quiz yourself afterwards.

Nursing Central

This app takes a small investment to purchase, but it gives you several references right at your fingertips whenever you need them. The app includes Davis' Drug Guide, Taber's Medical Dictionary, Diseases and Disorders, Davis' Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests and Medline Journals. All of these references are included with a unique study system called Grasp, a lookup tool called Glimpse and alerts to help you keep updated.

ReachMD

This free iPhone app lets you earn free Continuing Medical Education (CMEs) easily at your convenience. You can listen to material and take CME exams right on your iPhone. It has a memory function so it remembers what exams you have worked on before. It automatically updates with new CME programs and lets you know about new programs.

Scribbledoc

Everyone knows the old adage about doctors and their bad handwriting. Unfortunately, this adage has a basis in fact. If you can't decipher doctor's orders or notes on a chart, use your iPhone to scan in the problem text and let Scribbledoc translate it for you. This is not a free app, but it may well be worth the money if this is a common problem where you work.

Medical Lab Tests 1.5

This app is a database of lab tests that include normal values and their clinical significance made by West Samoa Consult. Categories include Coagulation, Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Electrolytes & Metabolites, Enzymes and Proteins, Arterial Blood Gas, Cardiac Tests, Ions & Trace Metals, Lipids, Liver and Pancreas, Hormones and Immunology. This app can be a great asset to any nurse on the job or any nursing student who is trying to learn about lab tests and their applications. This app only costs a few dollars.

Mediquations

This is a very inexpensive app for the iPhone. Mediquations helps with over 228 medical calculations and scoring tools that are at your fingertips whenever you need them. Equations are sorted by category. Often used equations can be listed for easy access.