Imagining the Unimaginable - Nursing Software
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


Defined Tag: Nursing Software.

Introduction

The Personal Data Assistant or the PDA is among the most recent, lightest, smallest and an increasingly popular handheld device for the medical professional that can execute many functions as desktop computers, at the point of contact.

While there are two major operating systems for the PDA, namely Palm OS and Pocket PC (previously known as Windows CE), currently the nursing software market is dominated by the Palm OS. Besides, the inbuilt nursing software, one probably needs additional nursing software packages to realize the full potential of the PDA or palmtop. The nursing software used by PDAs can handle many different functions like storing and retrieving patients’ medical history, prescriptions, fluids, vitals, labs, orders, calculators, references, care plans, nursing actions and hundreds of treatments and assessments.

Most Popular Products

Although there are several resources where freeware nursing software applications can be downloaded, the niche nursing software packages usually come at a price. The cost typically ranges from $30 (for the most basic ones) to $300 (for the highly advanced versions). Companies like Skyscape, Lexi-Comp offer such high-quality shareware products. Freeware applications are easily obtainable from popular websites like PDAcortex.com and CollectiveMed.com.

Skyscape has the most extensive and complete collection of medical reference titles, for PDAs or palmtops that are available in the healthcare industry today. Since early 90s, Skyscape has been providing medical reference data in an insightful and easy-to-use system, offering healthcare professionals, solutions that have helped enhance the quality of patient care. Skyscape possesses hundreds of references covering every medical profession and claims that over 400,000 healthcare professionals rely on its nursing software clinical, drug and lab references for accurate, confident and informed decision making at point of care.

Conclusion

Time and tide wait for no man. This old adage is all the more applicable in the ICU or Intensive Care Unit, where time is of the essence. The world of medical information is perennially undergoing changes. Keeping track of the up-to-date medical data is critical and indispensable, if healthcare professionals need to make well-informed decisions at the point of care.

The nursing software computerizes the medical information i.e. the clinical, educational, research, administrative and quality improvement data, enabling the PDAs or palmtops to provide instant assessments at your fingertips, thereby saving valuable time and perhaps the patient’s life.

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