In each issue of Nursing2010 Critical Care, Karen Innocent demonstrates the important relationship between technology and nursing. In the September issue she educates us about mobile applications and describes how easy access to current information right at the point of care can improve our practice. I’ve condensed the information from her table of free mobile apps here for our blog, but take some time to read the entire article Tech Talk: Mobile apps for nurses.

Free mobile apps: 

• Archimedes (medical calculator)
• CheckRx (drug interactions)
• Diagnosaurus (differential diagnosis and symptoms)
• Epocrates (drug guide, pill identifications, drug interactions)
• Epocrates Med Tools (calculators, conversion charts, and other references)
• MedWatch (drug alerts)
• Shots 2010 (pediatric immunization schedule)