NurseTabs Pharmacology for iPhone and iPod touch

This app is designed for the nursing student or beginning nurse to help learn concepts of pharmacology. It is organized by body system and by major drug categories. By learning common drug categories, the nurse can begin to recognize common considerations about all drugs within those categories. This may help enhance performance on the NCLEX licensure exam and will help nurses to recognize major considerations for category. Each category of drugs is explained in simple terms using the nursing process. Included are common side effects, adverse reactions, rationale for use, nursing assessments, teaching, and drug names associated with each category. There is a search tab to look up over 200 drug categories and over 1775 individual drug names that might be used in various healthcare settings. Additional features include an extensive list of alternative agents and what they might be used for, pharmacology terminology that is necessary to understand how drugs work , common intravenous medications with information on how long to infuse over, step-by-step approach for calculations (oral, IM, IV, IVPB), and common conversions.

• Search by body system, category, or individual drug names
• Side effects
• Adverse reactions
• Teaching
• Nursing considerations
• Drug names
• General information about the category and mechanism of action
• Important Nursing assessments
• Pharmacology Terminology
• IV Push suggested minimum infusion times
• Common conversions
• Step-by-step approach to solving drug calculations
• Over 1775 drug names
• Over 200 drug categories
• Easy to find icons for each body system
• Over 80 alternative agents with associated uses

Disclaimer:This reference is not intended to substitute for nursing education, texts, and other resources utilized by institutions and facilities to educate students and/ or facilitate safe client care. Due to the sensitive nature of medical and nursing references, this information may consistently need to be changed, supplemented, and updated to reflect current evidence based practice and medical/ nursing research. It does not contain every single aspect related to drug therapy. Variations in client genetics, comorbidities, physical assessment findings, diagnoses, and symptoms may alter the way each drug works with each client. This app is not intended to substitute for care provided by health care professionals.

Sierra Bravo Corporation: Thanks for all your design and programming expertise.

Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI: Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to work for such a great institute of learning that allows me an environment to constantly spark interest and passion for this wonderful field of nursing.

Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital: Thanks for giving me numerous years of experiences and cultivating my desires to be a nurse and educator.

To my Students: Thanks for giving me the opportunity to find new ways to help you learn about nursing. You inspire me to be creative and knowledgeable… and current!

CPS: Thanks for the web site design and implementation and we look forward to future business endeavors.

Disclaimer:This reference is not intended to substitute for nursing education, texts, and other resources utilized by institutions and facilities to educate students and/ or facilitate safe client care. Due to the sensitive nature of medical and nursing references, this information may consistently need to be changed, supplemented, and updated to reflect current evidence based practice and medical/ nursing research. It does not contain every single aspect related to drug therapy. Variations in client genetics, comorbidities, physical assessment findings, diagnoses, and symptoms may alter the way each drug works with each client. This app is not intended to substitute for care provided by health care professionals.