Mobile Medical Applications
Nurses and other medical professionals are increasingly using mobile medical applications--programs that can be accessed easily on smartphones and tablets--to quickly find information in the treatment setting. Medical dictionaries, dosage calculators, and even evidence-based treatment plans can all be found in portable formats.
Mobile App Reviews
Physicians review mobile apps at iMedical Apps.
Medical Apps available from ICC Library
CINAHL and Nursing Reference Center
EBSCO, which is the provider for CINAHL and Nursing Reference Center, has apps available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows smartphones.
EBSCO mobile application features include:
- Choose which databases to search
- Limit results to full text or peer reviewed
- Sort by relevance or date
- Retrieve full text results in HTML and/or PDF formats
- Save results for offline access at a later date
- Email results to self or others
- Retrieve their most recent 25 search results
- Browse a “cover flow” display of search results
The EBSCO Host application allows you to search CINAHL, a comprehensive database with articles from respected nursing journals
The Nursing Reference Center app gives you access to evidence-based patient care sheets, drug guides, and information about thousands of medicals conditions.
How to get EBSCO smartphone applications:
To download the EBSCOhost app, access the EBSCO product you are interested in via a computer. Click the link at the bottom of any EBSCOhost page to email yourself the download instructions, access key and a link to the app store. The authorization codes are good for 9 months, at which point the user would need to reauthorize their phone.
Medical Apps available outside of ICC
The links listed below are for apps that are not purchased by the library, but that are free or low-cost and are trusted medical resources. Click on the link to be brought to a site where you can purchase/download these apps. Please note that this list is provided as a convenience to students. ICC Library does not endorse any specific mobile device, and cannot provide technical assistance with downloading or using apps.
Apple/Iphone
Epocrates is a free app with a useful drug guide, calculators, and other useful features. This is a often used and trusted resources for nurses and other health professionals.
This app has a minimal cost (under $10.00) but contains a wealth of information for nurses. It provides updated reference information on drugs, infusions, and laboratory values, with information on medications, blood products, calculations, and PO, SQ, IM, and IO administration procedures.
This free app gives you access to complicated medical formulas, scores, scales and classifications
Find a complete list of recommended iPhone apps for nurses and nursing students, click here
Android
This is a free app version of the respected Medscape website. This app has a drug guide, information about diseases and diagnoses, and a collection of images and videos.
This free interative app tests your knowledge of anatomy. This is a great resource to use when studying for an anatomy exam!
This free app was specifically designed for nursing students. It has a medical dictionary, lab values, and other useful information for new students
Click here to find more recommended medical apps for Android devices
Additional apps
The National Library of Medicine maintains a list of medical mobile apps. Check out this list and see if there is one that is useful to you!
This app was designed to be used by parents, teachers and therapists.
This application includes medical calculators, lab and diagnostic info, medical dictionaries, algorithms, health alerts and the latest guidelines for critical-care decision making.