Apple iPad

[admin]

Hi Guys

Has anyone got an iPad? If so, did you get the BNF for it, and is it any good? Can you search/cross reference or is it just an e-book of the BNF? What apps are the best for pharmacists?

Thanks!

[sleather1]

I use Micromedex Drug information app on iphone. Good free drug info reference. http://cdn.imedicalapps.com/wp-conte.../IMG_18541.png

[jzd4rma]

Hi Guys

Has anyone got an iPad? If so, did you get the BNF for it, and is it any good? Can you search/cross reference or is it just an e-book of the BNF? What apps are the best for pharmacists?

Thanks!

Sure you mean for an IPhone because you don't plan on taking the IPad to work do you lol?

[admin]

Sure you mean for an IPhone because you don't plan on taking the IPad to work do you lol?

I do mean an iPad and yes I take it to work - why not? It fits in a small case and goes in my briefcase.

[admin]

I use Micromedex Drug information app on iphone. Good free drug info reference. http://cdn.imedicalapps.com/wp-conte.../IMG_18541.png

Thanks - this is a great app!

[hibernia]

I do mean an iPad and yes I take it to work - why not? It fits in a small case and goes in my briefcase.

I don't have one myself (yet, I'm being tempted) but I had a locum who always carried one, stuffed with all sorts of apps that she claimed were solely work related.

She had the BNF open all the time and she found it much easier and quicker to use than the paper version. Also had a Medscape app, an American one, that has a very useful and easy to use interaction checker.

While we often think of technology as being a plaything of the young what I liked most was the ability to increase the print size. As you get older you find books use smaller and smaller print. I'd swear it gets smaller with every new edition of the BNF.

[Pharmanaut]

I don't have one myself (yet, I'm being tempted) but I had a locum who always carried one, stuffed with all sorts of apps that she claimed were solely work related.

She had the BNF open all the time and she found it much easier and quicker to use than the paper version. Also had a Medscape app, an American one, that has a very useful and easy to use interaction checker.

While we often think of technology as being a plaything of the young what I liked most was the ability to increase the print size. As you get older you find books use smaller and smaller print. I'd swear it gets smaller with every new edition of the BNF.

I took a laptop along to work - I turned my back and a customer was half way climbing over the counter. Catching the movement in the corner of my eye I turned round. He said he was only climbing over to have a look at it.
Yeah Right.

Point I'm making if you take stuff like portable IT work eg IPads etc don't let it out of your sight even in the dispensary.
Or you will find out how really portable they are....

For my part I always use the eBNF/eBNFC if the pharmacy allows internet access.
As mentioned before though you do get 'Why are you wasting time on the internet look'.
The locum went on the internet again etc...
Access to medicines complete would be good; Stockley is on there.