8. Improving Healthcare
• Facilitate in Nursing Diagnosis (Muller-Staub,
2016)
• Potential Low Cost (Zhao, 2016)
• Support nursing practice and knowledge
development (Klieb, 2016)
• Enhance communication (Farrell, 2016)
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Nursing Central contains references for Nurses in any setting and Medline (pubmed interface) to support evidence based research
You can search for anything for example perhaps a nurse needs to brush up on his/her knowledge on rheumatoid arthritis. The nurse can search for arthritis and then go to rheumatoid arthritis in the disease manual
The nurse can go to a particular section in the disease manual using the section menu
Using the double arrow icon, the nurse is able to pull up information on lab/drugs/etc associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Maybe the nurse needs to know which lab values for the test are normal or information on which drug the patient with rheumatoid arthritis is on
The Nurse can look up Nursing Diagnosis and Skills on particular procedures they might need to refresh themselves on.
The benefits of utilizing apps for nurses include:
It can facilitate nursing diagnosis by providing nurses a point of care tool at their finger-tips
The cost for such products can be low compared to the benefits for example, looking up drug information and normal lab values within seconds.
These tools can support knowledge already retained by nurses and refresh skills and information for nurses who may be starting off their career or changing their career to different specialty.
They can enhance communication not only among colleagues but at the bedside during patient education.
