Every day you learn things on and off that job that make you a better travel nurse. From acquiring new clinical capabilities to honing your people skills, there are many ways to learn and grow in your profession. Additionally, a new crop of digital tools offers valuable partnership when it comes to on-the-job self-improvement for travel nurses. Let’s count down five of our favorites.
1. EnglishMed
Bedside manner is a huge part of being a great nurse. The ability to communicate better with patients, families, and other members of the healthcare team can vastly improve the quality of care. With a special section for nurses, this multimedia website includes articles, exercises and tests designed to improve your communication skills as they apply directly to your role as a nurse.
2. University of Maryland Medical Center Video Library
This amazing resource for healthcare professionals is home to a breadth and depth of “high-quality, professionally edited and produced videos” on everything from state-of-the art nursing procedures to the latest research topics. Topics include patient safety and quality; trauma care; hospital program overviews and much more.
3. Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses
A go-to when it comes to nursing drug references, this guide makes patient care both safer and more effective. It includes more than 800 built-in drug dosing calculation tools, as well as a number of other useful resources for everything from administering medications to children to generic drug pronunciations. The newest update also includes 800 innate weight-based drug dosing calculation tools which let you review, calculate, and administer in one streamlined step.
4. UpToDate.com
Need a quick, clinical answer at the point of care? Subscribe to UpToDate Online to gain access from your smart phone or internet browser to current, evidence-based guided recommendations from more than 6,000 vetted medical professionals across 22 clinical specialties, as well as printable patient education materials.
5. Epocrates
Consider yourself a bit of a Luddite? This intuitive medical reference app offers the ultimate in accessibility, which is why it’s used by more than one million health care providers to do everything from check for harmful drug interactions to review evidence-based, patient-specific guidelines. Just how useful is Epocrates? Users report saving approximately 20 minutes every day by using this powerful digital tool.
Lugging around textbooks and other resources while you’re on the road is a waste of both space and energy. These digital tools will help lighten your load while improving your ability to do your job in the most beneficial way.
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