Here are the Blackberry apps:

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Medical Reference & Drug Guides Perhaps the most basic of medical applications for BlackBerry smartphones, mobile medical reference guides from software companies like QxMD and Epocrates Rx help promote patient safety by giving doctors and physicians immediate and simple access to information on specific drugs/narcotics, drug interactions, dosage recommendations and much more. Such applications offer efficient, rapid and relevant search compared to printed medical reference guides. Guides also enable doctors or physicians to make or validate medical decisions at the point of care, decreasing time to diagnosis/prescription and reducing potential medical errors, according to RIM. 1) QxMD ECG Guide Creator: QxMD Software Description, from BlackBerry App World: "The ECG Guide app offers ECG interpretation from a Cardiology perspective, with over 120 high resolution ECG examples and a quiz feature." (Note: QxMD also offers a variety of free, medical-related software, like a pregnancy wheel, cardio calculator and a gastroenterology tool.) Price: $7.99 Where to Download: BlackBerry App World

2) Epocrates Rx Creator: Epocrates Inc. Description, from Epocrates.com: "[S]ubscription drug reference provides hundreds of&medication monographs and enables you to easily check for interactions among prescription, [over the counter] OTC, and alternative medicines. Plus, find the right treatment for hundreds of infectious diseases, and check IV compatibility in a jiffy." Additional features include a valuable "pill identification" option, which helps you identify pills of unknown origin; detailed information on more than 600 common alternative medicines; and detailed treatment guidelines for hundreds of infectious diseases. Price: $99.99 a year; $169.99 for two-year subscription

3) Skyscape Medical Resources Creator: Skyscape Description, from Blackberry App World: "[A] highly useful collection of free Medical Information and Decision Support resources for Healthcare Professionals, including Physicians, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Medical Students, Nursing Students and More. Free

Patient Data Management & Charge Capture New patient data management and charge capture applications give medical professionals access to backend data and patient healthcare information via mobile devices, all the while maintaining HIPAA and other compliance requirements. 4) Clinical Xpert Navigator Creator: Thomson Reuters Micromedex Solutions Description, from Thomson Reuters: "Clinical Xpert Navigator provides clinicians with real-time access to patient data via mobile devices&as well as through Web-based platforms such as desktop, laptop and tablet PCs. 'Navigator' consolidates data from multiple hospital information systems and delivers it to clinicians at the point of care. "Clinical Xpert CareFocus provides clinical surveillance, automating the process of identifying high-risk patients and informing the appropriate caregiver when clinical intervention is needed&.And rounding clinicians can conveniently capture procedure and charge codes at the point of care with Charge Capture. Code information is transmitted back to a secure portal, for rapid processing by the hospital or practice billing staff."

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Nursing is one of the best and important profession in the medical aids section and Nurse are has excellent knowledge on the first aid and medicines, which are very important to support the medical field in the real ways. As you have been known that without the real help of the nurse we can not run the clinic or hospital so their contribution are very important in the medical sector, especially in the treatment of the patients.

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Android developers continue to add more apps to the Market that relate to health and medical practice. While the field of apps relevant to health care professionals on Android lags far behind the iPhone OS platform, there are several apps worth noting.

Here, we look at some of the more useful medical apps for clinicians, and list a few apps for patients as well.

The fact that we chose a “Top 5? (and not “Top 10?), indicates just how limited the Android Market currently is for free medical apps. If you compare this list to the “top 10 free medical apps for the iPhone” list, you’ll see what we mean.

Epocrates

It is hard to believe that an app as useful and effective as Epocrates is available for free. The Epocrates team did a fantastic job of making the user interface come to life and the app is extremely useful at the point of care.

Skyscape

Many Android users will download Skyscape simply to get the Archimedes, a highly useful collection of hundreds of commonly used medical calculators. Skyscape, however, does have other medical resources for health care professionals and students. For Android users with OS v1.5 or lower who cannot run Epocrates, one of Skyscape’s main features, “Rx Drugs,” is a fine substitute. Outlines in Clinical Medicine (OCM) comes with the free version, and is particularly useful for students learning a new topic in medicine (e.g. pediatric vaccination schedules). Users, however, will find many of Skyscape’s more robust features unavailable in the free-edition.

PubMed Mobile

PubMed Mobile is a clean app for quick searches of abstracts on PubMed. It lacks full-text link capability, but allows the user to select and read abstracts, save searches and articles, and send articles to the printer, email, or social networking websites.

CPR – Choking

A wonderfully simple video-based app for learning basic life support skills on the fly. The depth of information may not be sufficient to learn every caveat of BLS – and it certainly does not touch on ACLS, but for a quick refresher or first-time learner this app is a great starting point.

SmrtGuard and Contact Owner

This is a bit of a cop-out, lumping two apps into one ranking. Mobile security, however, is of utmost importance in health care, particularly as app developers move to create mobile interaction with electronic medical records. SmrtGuard is the most functional free security app.

Through a remote website users can track, data wipe, call-forward, remote listen, and backup data on their mobile device and SD card. So if you lose your mobile device with sensitive information on it, you can wipe its data remotely. The app is free, except for two features – remote backup and data restore to a new mobile device – which require an upgrade to the Pro version ($2.99 per month for 12 months).

Contact Owner is a basic app that displays a message about the owner’s contact information (or the information for an emergency contact) on the lock screen. With contact information displayed on the lock screen, a person who finds your lost phone knows who to contact without accessing the phone’s data.

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by Brett Einerson and Iltifat Husain

Health care professionals and students using Android are probably wondering what free Android apps may be helpful in the health care setting.

Android developers continue to add more apps to the Market that relate to health and medical practice. While the field of apps relevant to health care professionals on Android lags far behind the iPhone OS platform, there are several apps worth noting.

Here, we look at some of the more useful medical apps for clinicians, and list a few apps for patients as well.

The fact that we chose a “Top 5? (and not “Top 10?), indicates just how limited the Android Market currently is for free medical apps. If you compare this list to the “top 10 free medical apps for the iPhone” list, you’ll see what we mean.

Epocrates

It is hard to believe that an app as useful and effective as Epocrates is available for free. The Epocrates team did a fantastic job of making the user interface come to life and the app is extremely useful at the point of care.

Skyscape

Many Android users will download Skyscape simply to get the Archimedes, a highly useful collection of hundreds of commonly used medical calculators. Skyscape, however, does have other medical resources for health care professionals and students. For Android users with OS v1.5 or lower who cannot run Epocrates, one of Skyscape’s main features, “Rx Drugs,” is a fine substitute. Outlines in Clinical Medicine (OCM) comes with the free version, and is particularly useful for students learning a new topic in medicine (e.g. pediatric vaccination schedules). Users, however, will find many of Skyscape’s more robust features unavailable in the free-edition.

PubMed Mobile

PubMed Mobile is a clean app for quick searches of abstracts on PubMed. It lacks full-text link capability, but allows the user to select and read abstracts, save searches and articles, and send articles to the printer, email, or social networking websites.

CPR – Choking

A wonderfully simple video-based app for learning basic life support skills on the fly. The depth of information may not be sufficient to learn every caveat of BLS – and it certainly does not touch on ACLS, but for a quick refresher or first-time learner this app is a great starting point. SmrtGuard and Contact Owner This is a bit of a cop-out, lumping two apps into one ranking. Mobile security, however, is of utmost importance in health care, particularly as app developers move to create mobile interaction with electronic medical records. SmrtGuard is the most functional free security app.

Through a remote website users can track, data wipe, call-forward, remote listen, and backup data on their mobile device and SD card. So if you lose your mobile device with sensitive information on it, you can wipe its data remotely. The app is free, except for two features – remote backup and data restore to a new mobile device – which require an upgrade to the Pro version ($2.99 per month for 12 months).

Contact Owner is a basic app that displays a message about the owner’s contact information (or the information for an emergency contact) on the lock screen. With contact information displayed on the lock screen, a person who finds your lost phone knows who to contact without accessing the phone’s data. Brett Einerson is a contributor and Iltifat Husain founder and editor of iMedicalApps.com. Originally published in MedPage Today.

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QxMD : Clinical calculators & decision support tools for healthcare providers. Framingham & Reynolds risk score, CHADS2 and much more. Contains calculators for many branches of medicine, and more to come! QxMD creates leading tools for practicing health care professionals.

Cardio Calc – Free – This app contains cardiology clinical calculators and decision support tools, Framingham & Reynolds risk score, CHADS2 and much more. It is designed for anyone managing patients with heart disease disease or lipid disorders.

Cardiovascular Pharmacology – $1.99 – This is a fully-featured flash card app that helps you learn about cardiovascular pharmacology.

EKGdroid – $3.99 – This is a simple arrhythmia guide for Android devices. Each component of the EKG is explained.

Medicine Central – $159.95 – Medicine Central is an integrated mobile and web reference built specifically for physicians, students, residents, and nurse practitioners. Medicine Central brings you comprehensive point-of-care content on the essentials of diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for over 700 diseases and disorders in a quick-read format.

Merck Manual Suite – $79.95 – The Merck Manual Suite plus Davis’s Drug Guide combines three references to create a complete point-of-care solution for clinicians. This package integrates expert descriptions of diagnosis and management of diseases with an A to Z symptoms guide and an award-winning drug guide.

Drug Facts Platinum – $149.95 – This app combines the most comprehensive drug database (A to Z Drug Facts) with a powerful interactions product (Drug Interaction Facts) and over 300 natural product monographs (The Review of Natural Products) for complete point-of-care drug coverage.

Diagnosaurus DDx – $.99 – Quickly search over 1,000 differential diagnoses by organ system, symptom, disease, or browse all entries to help you reach an accurate diagnosis.

Medical Mnemonics – $1.99 – Medical Mnemonics puts 1500+ clever acronyms, rhymes, and memory tricks on your Android, on topics ranging from Anatomy and Biochemistry to Pharmacology and Surgery.

MCAT Prep Chem – $2.99 – The MCAT Prep Chem app covers all of the aspects of MCAT prep; general & organic chemistry. All the content is arranged by topic and category for easy navigation.

MCAT Prep Bio – $2.99 – The MCAT Prep Bio app covers all the aspects of MCAT prep: molecular bio, genetics, etc. All the content is arranged by topic and category for easy navigation.

999 Medical Anatomy Terms – $1.29 – Multiple choice quiz, flashcards, and dictionary. Post your score online for global ranking. Record and review correct and incorrect answers with email. Text message quizzes to friends. Recent upgrades include hundreds of new heart, muscle, blood, CNS, and skeletal terms.

Pediatrics Central – $179.95 – Pediatrics Central Dx + ID + Rx is the complete solution for pediatric information at the point-of-care. Look up detailed disease and drug information in 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, Red Book, A to Z Drug Facts, Drug Interaction Facts, and MEDLINE Journals. Pediatrics Q&A – $9.95 – Prepare for your certification, recertification, USMLE, shelf exams, or rotations with Pediatrics: PhysicianBoardReview

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Some famous books which can help you are :

Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide by Davis's Notes

Nursing supervision: a guide for clinical practice by Stephen Power

Clinical nursing skills and techniques by Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia Ann Potter

Nursing Care: An Essential Guide by Mrs Linda Field and Mrs Barbara Smith

Some advice and guide for you in this site:

nursingcareguide.com/Bournemouth/Dorset_Nursing_Supplies_988.asp

Tools and elements necessary for nurses...check this out..

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-138.html

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Our methodology was simple. We sifted through all 1,200 apps in the Health category and pulled out the highest rated, most relevant apps for doctors, nurses and students in the respective categories. Each category is sorted by most popular app, as determined by the ratings in the Android Marketplace. You’ll probably see a lot of the same brand name apps that were listed in our best medical iPhone apps list.

Before You Start One thing to note before you dive into this list is that each app listed below is linked to its profile on Androlib.com, the definitive database for Android Marketplace apps. That profile contains pricing information, ratings, version number and download size.

Note: Descriptions were written by the app’s developer.

All-in-One

SkyScape Medical Resources – Free – Skyscape Medical Resources is a collection of medical information and decision support resources for healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, PAs, NPs, medical students, nursing students and more. When you install the App, it will download your free resources which include RxDrugs, OCM & Archimedes.

Lexi-Comp – Free – Keep updated with Lexi-Comp’s trusted clinical knowledge, now at the touch of a button. This application includes 30-days of access to all databases Lexi-Comp offers for your Android phone. Plus hundreds of images, calculations, and tables available with a cell or wifi connection, so you’re never without answers again.

Anatomy

Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy – $76.95 – Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy is the most loved and best selling anatomy atlas in the English language. Based on the phenomenal medical artwork of Dr. Frank H. Netter, full-color anatomic illustrations allow users to test themselves on key anatomic structures and relationships.

999 Medical Anatomy Terms Quiz – $2.29 – Learn hundreds of anatomy and physiology definitions through multiple choice quizzes, flashcards and dictionaries.

Anatomy of the Brain – $1.99 – Anatomy of the Brain is a fully-featured flash card app that helps you learn the names, locations, and functions of over 125 parts of the brain. Perfect for doctors, nurses, medical students or anyone interested in medicine.

Calculators

Mediquations Med Calculator – $4.99 – The most comprehensive medical calculator on Android. With 223 formulas and scoring tools and an intuitive interface, Mediquations makes getting the answers you need quick and painless.

MediCalc – $.99 – MediCalc contains over 70 of the most commonly used medical equations and scoring tools. It has a very simple UI with formulas broken down by specialty and systems.

Medical Calculator – $2.99 – MedCalc includes 58 of the most important medical calculators and scoring tools for the G1 android phone. It incorporates a simple and fast interface and provides comprehensive results maximizing your time caring for patients.

InfusionCalc – $.99 – Great tool for paramedics and nurses. Enter the dosage ordered (mcg/kg/mind), drug on hand (mg or mcg), fluid volume (ml), drop factor, and patient’s weight (kg or lbs).

Cardiology

Cardio Calc – Free – This app contains cardiology clinical calculators and decision support tools, Framingham & Reynolds risk score, CHADS2 and much more. It is designed for anyone managing patients with heart disease disease or lipid disorders.

Cardiovascular Pharmacology – $1.99 – This is a fully-featured flash card app that helps you learn about cardiovascular pharmacology.

EKGdroid – $3.99 – This is a simple arrhythmia guide for Android devices. Each component of the EKG is explained.

Dentists

Dentistry Terms – $1.25 – This Dentist Glossary application is a dictionary of all things having to do with Dentistry. They have included abbreviations, definitions, a glossary of terms, and many more Dentistry Terms.

Clinical Decision Support

Medicine Central – $159.95 – Medicine Central is an integrated mobile and web reference built specifically for physicians, students, residents, and nurse practitioners. Medicine Central brings you comprehensive point-of-care content on the essentials of diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for over 700 diseases and disorders in a quick-read format.

Merck Manual Suite – $79.95 – The Merck Manual Suite plus Davis’s Drug Guide combines three references to create a complete point-of-care solution for clinicians. This package integrates expert descriptions of diagnosis and management of diseases with an A to Z symptoms guide and an award-winning drug guide.

Drug Facts Platinum – $149.95 – This app combines the most comprehensive drug database (A to Z Drug Facts) with a powerful interactions product (Drug Interaction Facts) and over 300 natural product monographs (The Review of Natural Products) for complete point-of-care drug coverage.

Diagnosaurus DDx – $.99 – Quickly search over 1,000 differential diagnoses by organ system, symptom, disease, or browse all entries to help you reach an accurate diagnosis.

Dictionaries

Concise Oxford Medical Dictionary – $14.99 – An Oxford Medical dictionary with over 10,000 terms used in modern medicine.

BKS Medical Dictionary – $19.95 – The Medical Dictionary for Android, contains easy-to-understand explanations of over 38,000 medical terms.

Medical Terminology – $.75 – A dictionary with over 500 medical words.

Drug Reference

Epocrates – Free – Quickly and easily access reliable drug information with Epocrates Rx beta. It provides multiple clinical tools in one easy-to-use application. Join more than 950,000 healthcare professionals who rely on Epocrates’ innovative clinical products to make more confident decisions at the point of care. (SD card is required)

SkyScape RXDrugs – Free – Skyscape’s RxDrugs Dosing Companion provides dosing guidelines on thousands of commonly used brand and generic drugs and now includes nearly 400 integrated weight-based drug dosing calculators. Continuously updated dosing guidelines on a variety of medications, including antimicrobial, cardiovascular and many more.

Davis’s Drug Guide – $49.95 – Davis’s Drug Guide delivers up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical information on over 5,000 trade name and generic drugs. Look up information on dosing and administration, safety, interactions, and patient teaching.

A2ZDrugs – $49.95 – A2ZDrugs is the handheld version of A To Z Drug Facts, the easy-to-use drug guide with the latest FDA approvals, indications, dosages, side effects, and patient care considerations.

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