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6 Must-Have iPhone Apps For Nursing Students

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:57:44 +0000

Like many other professions, having information readily available is a plus. The same could be said for the journey of becoming a nurse as well. There are many different iPhone applications that can be beneficial to you if you’re a nursing student. From descriptions of diseases (including signs and symptoms) to medications and what they are used to treat, a nursing student who has a lot of information on-hand will no doubt do well in their pursuit to become a nurse. Here are 10 must-have iPhone applications that every nursing student can benefit from.

Nursing Central

With the Nursing Central application a student can have instant access to all sorts of detailed information relevant to the nursing world. The information is written by and for nurses so you know they know what they’re talking about. There’s information on more than 4,500 drugs, and more than 56,000 dictionary terms available. With Nursing Central you’ll get Taber’s Medical Dictionary, Davis’s Drug Guide, unbound MEDLINE and much more. This application requires a registration at the cost of $159.95.

Eponyms For Students

Eponym, by Pascal Pfiffner, gives a student a brief description of more than 1,700 common and not-so-common medical eponyms. No more trying to remember what the meanings of medical eponyms are anymore. Reach for your Eponyms by Pfiffner and have the answer quickly and easily at your fingertips.

Epocrates Rx

With this iPhone application you’ll have immediate access to drug information, OTC medications, pill ID, drug interaction information, tables and calculations, and formulary information. What’s the beauty of this application? It’s updated weekly and is absolutely free. Sweet!

Netter’s Atlases of Human Anatomy

Netter’s is the best selling anatomy atlas out there. Now you can have it at your fingertips. Have access to Netter’s anatomy flash cards, musculoskeletal flash cards, neuroscience flash cards, advanced head and neck flash cards, Histology flash cards, and the complete Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy application. The illustrations are beautifully colored and extremely accurate.

Stanza

Stanza, by Lexcycle, allows you to read books on your iPhone. Many users agree that Stanza’s interface is unrivaled in its clarity, and is extremely easy to use. There is a selection of more than 50,000 titles available through a number of different partners, or you can choose from an additional 50,000 free ebooks. You can also transfer any existing ebooks you currently have on your computer to your iPhone using the Stanza desk top application feature.

Skyscape

Here’s a little of what you’ll get with the Skyscape application for iPhone.

Medical calculators
Drug info
Formulas
Algorithms
Health alerts
The latest medical guidelines.
Hundreds of valuable medical resources
Content from top publishers
Current guidelines
Drug guides
Interactive algorithms
Student rebates
Test Preparation
…and much more

Do yourself a favor, and get these iPhone applications if you’re a nursing student. They’ll make your life so much easier.

T. Buck writes about how to find nurse practitioner programs.

Repairing your Computer

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:57:54 +0000

You got problem with your computer, was it working not properly or running very slow? whether it was caused by unwanted virus/worm infection or because of accidentally driver deletion. Most of users usually solved it by reinstalling its operating system, while some trying to repair it by restoring the default system configuration. But how if you forget to back up the driver? Driver access is important usually it was kept in the installation disks. In case you forget where to put it, you got to surf the internet to find the appropriate driver.

Before you do the surfing, make sure you had write your old drivers. But if you forget it you could install some software to detect what kind software are suitable with your hardware.

In case those software still unable detecting your hardware, you could use old ways by opening the computer case (for PC – personal computer) check the motherboard version, then you could continue with those information to find the driveraccess. For Notebook, you might able to find the details behind your notebook.

Either to find motherboard drivers or webcam drivers, you could find it in driveraccess.com, which is available and work in various operating system.

Handling Infected Computer

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:58:33 +0000

Reinstalling your software, is one of option to get best performance of your computer. Infected computer with lots of worms or virus, sometimes required more time to get your operating system working well. You have to manually delete some file or repair it on the registry. Some are solved with driver updates, by uploading the latest driver.

But for those who doesn’t want to waste more time to find it, reinstalling all of your windows drivers. Note: this action effective to handle worm infection which attacking your hardware.

If the worms / virus still messing up your registry, the best way to perfectly clean it, by reinstalling your operating system. Some works just with replacing the old registry and windows file, but for some others you just got to backup your file and start with fresh installation.

With fresh installation, your computer just like a teenager, speed and performance are reliable, but you should gave your time for backup your old data. And prepare all of your computer drivers. While reinstalling it, only replace the old registry, the performance itself will became like your computer before it infected.

Which one better, depends on your case, but whatever the choice is, its recommended to secure your data in other storage before you do it.

Speed-up your Computer

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:28:43 +0000

It was annoying, just right when we want to use computer, the performance became slow. And usually it took times to figure it out, whats happening. The first suspicious came to virus attack and its variant, after checking for a long time virus not found. Ordinary user will confuse about what had to be done next, until the realize they forget to clean registry.

The registry of a computer is a system of hidden files which is the backbone of all information. It records every action, process and program used on a computer. Unfortunately, it becomes cluttered and disorganized, over time, because the registry does not delete expired data.

This means that even though a program as been uninstalled, the registry entries that are no longer relevant may remain. Registry cleaner is a program that seek out this misfit information and eliminate them from your system. They can improve the performance and speed of a computer system. Cleaners are more effective than manual entry deletion from registry editor.

Its recommended to back up the old registry to ensure information is protected. Also, users must pay attention to the program instructions. Once the registry cleaner identifies the files that need to be removed from a system, users have to review the list and make sure that there is nothing important to their current software. Feels the best performance of your computer.