School of Nursing

Nursing PDA References , Tools & Other Resources

Skyscape References

The following nursing-related PDA Software titles are included with the PDA purchased through Skyscape:

Skyscape Nursing Constellation which includes:

• Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
• RNotes®: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide
• Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual
• Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With
• Nursing Implications
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
• Archimedes 360°™ Medical Calculator
• MedAlert - Medical Alerts and Clinical Summaries
• MedStream - Skyscape's dynamic medical information channels
• Medline
• Life Support 360*

CheckRx™: Patient Drug Interactions Guide

Skyscape Food Guide

From the Skyscape site you may also choose from a number of optional references:

• Davis's NCLEX-RNR Success
• Health Assessment Through the Life Span
• Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice: Procedures
• Nursing I.V. Drug Handbook
• Obstetrics and Gynecology Recall
• Psychosocial Nursing for General Patient Care
• Spanish-English English-Spanish Medical Dictionary
• The Harriet Lane Handbook
• The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics

PDA Nursing Tools (not from Skyscape)

The following are links to free PDA downloads that are not included in the Skyscape package or provided by Skyscape.

Cholesterol ATP III Calculator

• Palm OS
• Pocket PC

Epocrates Drug Database

• All platforms

JNC7 Hypertension Guidelines

• Palm OS and Pocket PC

Immunizations

• Palm OS
• Pocket PC

PDA Resources

SSC Community Only: On-line Library Resources

• Dynamed

• Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries
• UConn Health Center, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library
• U Mass Medical, Lamar Soutter Library
• U Texas, Health Science Center Library