At Baylor University Medical Center and across Baylor Health Care System intranet we are using an application from Thomson Health Care. It is a one stop shop for everything we need at work. It provides us the following:
- Diseases-all diseases we can find in there just type the disease and it serves as our Medical Surgical Book.
- Labs and labworks resource- a resource for all kinds of labworks, When you are using it for labs you can find tips how to collect the specimen, precautions etc.
- Patient Education forms- all you have to do is look for the disease or medication or the type teaching you need to give to your patient and click “print”. There it goes you have your teaching with a form for patients to sign that they have recieved the material or teaching.
- Drugs, Interactions- It also serves as our Nurses Drug Handbook, and its printable too, and serves as patient teaching again.
- Alternative Medicines- Every altenative medications approved by FDA is in there too. You don’t have to worry again what that funny medication is all about.
- PDA software- they also have a PDA software that is compatible to Palm OS and Microsoft OS great one. A must have for your smart phone and PDA. But one thing I don’t like both format are unsstable!!! needs inprovements. Its also complete and basically can provide all the things you need.
- IV incompatibility- where you wondering if the IV meds that just hanged are incompatible? at Micromedex all you have to is key in the medication and enter them in a box and click one more there you will know if your vancomycin and dobutamine are incompatible.
- Medication Calculators- Every medicaine calculators you need. except for the highly technical calculations of unfamiliar medications. This feature too can be found in their PDA Software, smart right?
and that makes it great… a MUST have for every Health Care System.
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