Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the first mobile application for the Nursing Drug Handbook, the best-selling drug reference for nurses. Available for Apple iPhone, iPad and iTouch and all Android devices, the new application claims to be the first drug reference for nurses to offer weekly updates.
Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), the new app provides the industry’s fastest access to nursing-specific drug information allowing nurses to find drug facts in less than 10 seconds but usually in less than five. Conversely, many drug reference apps take twice the time to run the same searches. Intuitive keyword searching provides fast-access to 965 generic and more than 1,500 brand-name drugs – including new drug information not found in the app’s print counterpart.
While most drug reference apps provide at best monthly updates, Nursing Drug Handbook is the first to offer them weekly. The app features almost 900 drug monographs addressing more than 2,500 generic and brand name drugs. It currently has a comprehensive collection of pill images – more than 400 are included – to help nurses confidently identify their patients’ medications. The app allows nurses to search for desired drugs alphabetically, by pharmacologic class and by therapeutic class. The full version of the app also includes a dosage calculator, customisable notes, a favorites list, and detailed monographs, all in a user-friendly programme.
The Nursing Drug Handbook App is available immediately as an iTunes download and by early next week as a Google Play download. The 2013 print version will be made available starting May 21.
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