Emergency Nurse
Practitioner App.
Erica Donovan
This phone application comes
from The Royal Children’s
Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne,
whose guidelines I use often in
my work. Don't let the fact that
it has Nurse Practitioner in the
title put you off. I am far from
this level but it has some great
information that I'm hoping to
incorporate into my own
practice. There is also another
app from RCH which centres on
Paediatric
Intensive
Care,
however I find the Emergency
Nurse Practitioner app more
useful in the primary health care
environment.
The app is 100% free, and I
haven't struck any of those
terrible ads like some free apps
have. I can only speak for using
the app via Apple, but it is very
functional
and
easy
to
read. From a bit of a play around
the search function, it seems to
be work really well.
Some of the pathways contain
refresher diagrams, or charts,
both of which are handy
because you're not just looking
at screeds of text. There are
sections based around body
March 2019
L.O.G.I.C
systems, and others more
centred on specific issues like
eczema or constipation. The
links at the end of the pages
provide great further reading,
and other guides that might be
helpful.
Although
certain
policies might differ from your
specific institution, this app
gives a quick overview of the
issues you might encounter
working with children. For those
who maybe don’t often assess
children so often, the guide has
a section with information
about paediatric physiological
differences and handy hints
about how to position children
for
examination.
There's a couple of screenshots
below,
but
I'd
highly
recommend taking a look.
If
you're
interested
in
downloading the app, the links
are
as
below.
https://play.google.com/store/
apps/details…
And
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.co
m/…/emergency-nurse-
pr…/id1364319462…
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