Blog spotlight: Cool app to help nurses, but does it foster bad habits?
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, February 8, 2012
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Robert Freeman, a registered nurse at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, designed an mobile app for nurses that includes a database of more than 10,000 medical abbreviations and a news feed specific to the nursing profession, according to the New York Daily News. Freeman said the idea for a nursing app came to him when a colleague could not decipher an abbreviation on a patient's chart. He indicates that nursing students will benefit the most from using the app as a learning tool, but that it will also improve efficiency and productivity for all nurses by quickly answering queries.
Freeman spent three months researching the information necessary to design "Nurse Net," his free app. The app includes tools such as the Credentialer, which clarifies the abbreviations for various certifications and credentials used by health professionals, and the Abbreviation Assistant, which interprets abbreviations found on medical charts. "Nurse Net" became available in the Apple Store in November and has been downloaded more than 12,000 times since then.
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