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There are many reasons why every nursing student should carry an iPad and those reasons come in the form of apps. These apps can provide information, serve as interactive tools, and do much more that might be of help to nursing students. The apps that follow are 7 reasons why every nursing student should consider getting an iPad.

Carter’s Encyclopedia Of Health And Medicine

This app is an encyclopedia that has 12,000 entries. Just take that in for a minute. Then consider that it comes from Dr. Warwick Carter, a respected professional whose publications include a staggering 3,000 medical articles and 23 books. This amazing collection of information is also extremely easy to use and can give you help getting started. Having this much information at your fingertips is definitely a reason to consider getting an iPad.

Blausen Human Atlas

Every nursing student is sure to get ample use out of this app. It supplies you with a medical atlas of the human body. You can zoom in or out and listen to narration as you watch. This app doesn’t just show you the body, however. It gives you 7,000 animations and another 13,000 illustrations. If you want to learn about the human body in a more interesting way then this is an excellent way to do just that.

Visual Dx

This app shows you diseases with more than 19,000 medical images. It shows you images of how the same disease may look different from one case to the next and helps you to learn exactly what to look for. With images of disease on patients of varying age, stage, and skin type this app will help you hone your diagnostic skills to an impressive degree.

5-Minute Consult

This app assists you with figuring out the diagnosis, treatment, and follow up of more than 900 medical conditions. Every nursing student can benefit from having this tool on hand.

Davis’s Guide For Nurses

This app has more than 800 drug dosing calculation tools just waiting to complete calculations for you and will even help you correctly pronounce the names of more than 890 generic drugs. It can assist with the detection of possible drug interactions. Nursing students will love this calculation tool.

Procedures Consult

This app comes in four different forms depending on what specialty you’re in. The choices are internal medicine, musculoskeletal, family medicine, and women’s health. There are video tutorials with each app for you to enjoy and learn from.

Papers

This app allows you to search for research on whatever topic you like. Once you find the research that you are looking for you can share, bookmark, and sync what you find. This app makes research easy for all nursing students.

These are 7 reasons why every nursing student should consider getting an iPad. You don’t always have to be running to look for books or websites to find the information and tools that you need. You can have all this waiting on your iPad any time you need it.

T. Rheinecker has dedicated many hours to researching and writing about obtaining an FNP education.