I love your site. I bought a Dell Axim while I was a nursing student, and got the epocrates download too. I found that the windows based software was more familiar and easier for me to use. If you want to put out about $40 you can go to the unbound medicine web site and get Tabers medical encyclopedia. It beats carrying around an encylclopedia with you. The PDA, epocrates and tabers were the best investments I made and still use them at work, especially when dispensing medications. The drug guide is much faster at looking up medications (for cross reference with generic and name brands) than the printed drug books. The Tabers also comes with web access, so you can look up definitions on your computer as well.

Hi! First, the blood think creeped me out! Your poor vein!! I on the other hand always lie and say that I do weight 125 and they look at me as to say yeah right lady maybe in your dreams!!! ;-} Second, I am about to purchase a laptop...is this a wise decision or should I consider a PDA? I'm not in nursing school yet, but start this fall. Any suggestions??? Thanks!
Eve
PS, the flashcard site is wonderful, thanks for the advice!

Hey just wanted to drop by and say Hi! I remember the "student nurse" days and I don't miss them at all....Well, Good Luck and stop by my site sometime and maybe I can give you some advice if you ever need it!

I need some sort of system that is also a phone, because I am not organized enough to carry two things with me everywhere!

hey I use a PDA for police work to. I have apps for traffic and crime scene investigation. the coolest one is were you type in the type of evidence you are collecting like, Blood/dry/solid/nonporus, and it tells you how to collect and stor the evidence properly. It is a god send. I love your space. My whole family is in the medical field, accept for me. Good luck to you.

PS I got my wife a Tungsten E also right before she started working as a nurse. She loves it, and gets a lot of use out of the drug dictionary and ePocrates programs I put on there for her. I have one too, but I am sure I will have to do some looking to find some radiography related programs. I plan to try putting those flash cards you talked about on mine one of these days.

Hi Katie,

The person you met who came to look at the DVT was probably a sonographer, or ultrasound tech. When I did my shadowing at the hospital, I was paired up with one for a while and I accompanied her to a patients room who had a suspected clot in a vein in his arm. I know what you mean about not being able see anything on the screen. The ultrasound images were not very clear to me even when she pointed stuff out. i would just nod dumbly and say "oh yeah, I see it!" when I didnt see anything on the screen that was remotely identifiable. But I guess thats why they go to school, so they can interpret those squiggly lines. :-) To become a sonographer, though, you have to first be trained as an X-ray tech then do another 1-2 years of school and get certified separately. I am more interested in being trained in CT or MRI eventually, since they dont require any additional schooling, just on the job training.

Anyway, now that I have talked your ear off, I will end this "comment". I hope you are having a nice weekend. Good luck during this up coming week. Do you get MLK day off of class?

Dustin