RNotes®: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide

Another trusted resource for your mobile & desktop platforms

Ehren Myers, RN (F. A. Davis)

The wildly popular and highly respected RNotes® is the preferred tool of nursing educators and students for the delivery of safe and effective health care in hospital and home settings. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition and it includes additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

In this new second edition, RNotes® continues to present practical, clinically-oriented content across a wide range of topics in a succinct format. Find more of the commonly-used but rarely memorized clinical information that hundreds of thousands of nurses and students refer to daily.

Key Features

NEW! Diseases and Disorders section covering interventions and patient education information for the most common conditions nurses will encounter
NEW! OB/Peds/Geri section focuses on life span considerations and addresses complications and emergencies associated with pregnancy and delivery
Assess section brings together tools for a thorough general assessment of the adult patient
NEW! ECG and LABS combined to cover all diagnostic content in one place
EMERG/TRAUMA section covers the latest ACLS resuscitation procuedures as well as pediatric and neonatal advanced life support information
Expanded coverage of emergency assessment and high-alert meds
HIPAA- and OSHA-compliant - supporting privacy issues and minimizing the spread of nosocomial infection
Reorganization of eight current and new sections allow for more intuitive navigation:
- BASICS - common skills, procedures, and equipment necessary to perform basic, routine nursing tasks. Precautions; Nosocomial Infections; Patient Safety; Oxygen Delivery Equipment, Ventilators, and Chest Tubes; Tube Feedings; Specimen Collection
- ASSESS - skills, procedures and tools necessary to perform an assessment on an adult patient. Gordon's Functional Health Patterns; Complete Health History; Physical Assessments; Vital Signs; Auscultation; Pressure Sores; Wound Care; General and Focused Assessments and Scales; Neurological and Mental Health Assessments; Suicide Interventions; Substance Abuse; Pain and Pain Management; Postoperative Assessment; Fluid and Electrolytes; Reusable Assessment Forms, Reports, and Notes Pages
- OB/PEDS/GERI - Pregnancy, Labor, Newborn, Pediatric Assessments, Scales, and Information; Age-Related Changes and Their Implications; Pediatric Formulas, IVs and IM Injection Sites; Child and Adult Immunization Schedules; Pharmacokinetics; Polypharmacy; Inappropriate Medications for the Elderly; Fall Risk Assessment and Prevention; Signs of Malnutrition
- DISEASES AND DISORDERS - Definition (Incidence, Onset, Etiology, Symptoms), Collaborative Care, Nursing Focus, and Patient Teaching for the Most Commonly Encountered Diseases and Disorders: Cardiovascular; Respiratory; Neurological; Gastrointestinal; Endocrine; Renal/Genitourinary; Musculoskeletal; Neurological; Cancer; Alzheimer's; more
- EMERG/TRAUMA - Medical Emergencies; CPR; Choking; Resuscitation; Emergency Assessment; Emergency Drugs; ACLS; Defibrillation; Increased Intracranial Pressure; Fractures, Trauma; Abuse; Burns; Shock: Signs and Symptoms; Antidotes; Terrorism
- MEDS/IV - Medication Administration; High Alert Medications; Medication Errors; Abbreviation and Symbols to Avoid; Common Medication Formulas; Drip Rates and Drug Amounts; IV Solutions (with Indications); Blood Products (with Indications); Blood Transfusion Reaction; Intradermal/Intramuscular/Subcutaneous Injection Sites and Techniques; Z-Track Method; Insulin; Mixing Insulins; Starting an IV; IV insertion and Piggy Back Setup; Common Veins; Complications of Starting and Maintaining IVs; Flushing Peripheral and Central Lines; Common Prescription Drugs
- Now Combined! LABS/ECG - Common Laboratory Values in Conventional and SI Units; Urinalysis; Hemodynamic Values; Basic ECG Interpretation; Normal Cardiac Rhythm Parameters; Rates and Measurements (HR, PRI, QRS); ECG Rhythm strips
- TOOLS - Metric Conversions; Common Equivalents and Formulas; Frequently Used Phone Numbers; Community Resources; Cultural Diversity; English/Spanish Translator; Nonverbal Communication charts; Common Symbols and Abbreviations

Plus, with Skyscape's powerful SmartLink™ cross-linking capability you can quickly and easily access any related disease and diagnostic topics across your entire mobile reference library.

*Desktop/Tablet PC version requires Windows 98 or higher. Desktop version is not available for iPhone.

Facts About Skyscape's PDA Medical Software
RNotes®: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide, 2nd Ed. is current, accurate and easily cross-indexes with all of Skyscape's 500+ clinical, drug & diagnostic references.