Nursing is hard enough when you do it from home, but when you travel, it is all the more difficult. Luckily, travel nurses with iPhones can find lots to utilize with these top 50 apps for travel, health, and more.
Essential Travel iPhone Apps for Nurses
Check out these travel iPhone apps to make flying, driving, currency, itineraries, and more even easier.
1. TravelTracker: With this app, you can organize all of your travel related items like flights, hotel stays, and car rentals. Just enter your flight information and view its status via the web. It can also track train travel and pleasure cruises.
2. TripIt: Use this iPhone app as an online travel itinerary and trip planner. Simply email your travel plans, including mode of transportation and lodging. It then organizes them and more into one master itinerary. It can even notify you of delays.
3. Flight Track: Download this app and get real-time status for flights from around the world. Live weather radar updates, route maps, and other info are also included. You can even search for alternate flights if your current one doesn’t work for you.
4. AeroChannelMobile: Visit here to get information on flight’s directly from your iPhone. Simply type in your airport, airline, or flight number to get an answer. Works for departures and arrivals.
5. Currency: Get up-to-date currency exchange rates with this iPhone app. It provides exchange rates for over 70 countries, to help you find out the value of local money. Simply enter your master currency to get instant answers in 18 languages.
6. TSA Wait: Download this app for wait time statistics for airport security checkpoints across the U.S. The statistics are compiled by the TSA and released regularly. There is also a similar app on the site entitled FAAwait.
7. Zipcar: The world’s largest provider of rental and loaner cars, they have an iPhone app due out later in 2009. It tells you what cars are available and directs you to it once you’ve made a reservation. The app can even unlock the car using your iPhone signal.
8. XpenseTracker: This is an all inclusive expense tracking application for business or personal use. In addition to recording all of your expenses, it can export them to your desktop in an Excel friendly format. Photo receipts are also exported to your desktop computer.
9. Rest Area: Traveling by car? Then use this app to get the closest rest areas and display them on a map or in a customized listing. It also tells you where to get gas, food, lodging, and more.
Essential Health iPhone Apps for Travel Nurses
Anyone, regardless of medical training, can utilize the following iPhone apps for their health or the health of others.
10. WebMD: Take this leading medical site with you on your iPhone with this free app. You can check symptoms and even access treatment information. It also comes with handy first aid essentials.
11. Pocket First Aid & CPR: The American Heart Association offers this app for $3.99 and has the latest information for viewing anywhere. It features hundreds of pages with illustrations, including topics such as choking, bites, bruises, burns, seizures, diabetic emergencies, and more. It even has a kit checklist and medical information storage.
12. iFirstAid: No need to travel with a bulky first aid handbook anymore. It contains loads of information and even offers a Lite version for free. You can also enter their contest to win first aid related items.
13. First Aid Children: This downloadable guide is made for those who work or travel with children. It shows how to protect yourself, check for vitals, deal with blocked airways, and even has special cases of emergency. There is also a special section for infants.
14. iBP: This is a blood pressure tracking and analysis tool. Blood pressure values can be easily entered along with pulse, weight, and notes. Graphs are also included for multiple readings.
15. Learn CPR: Need to brush up on this skill? Then get this free app with videos on how to perform it on an adult, child, or infant. Also useful if you want to teach others how to do it.
16. Vision: Use your iPhone as a tool to conduct vision tests on patients. Choose from Ishihara color, astigmatism, retinal function, and visual field test. It also comes with exercises and games to maintain your own vision.
Essential iPhone Apps Just for Travel Nurses
It helps to be a nurse or medical professional when utilizing the following apps.
17. AirStrip: The platform securely delivers critical patient information, including virtual real-time waveform data, directly from hospital monitoring systems to a doctor or nurse’s smart phone, laptop, or desktop. It is reusable, scalable, data independent, and can be employed throughout the healthcare enterprise.
18. Netter’s Anatomy: For $39.99 you can get anatomical illustrations from this popular atlas right on your iPhone. Navigate through images with the flick of a finger, pinch to zoom, and tap to test your knowledge of muscles, bones, vessels, and the joints. There is even a study feature to help you learn more.
19. Patient Keeper: This series of applications helps thousands of physicians automate their entire day across all care settings. Apps offered include clinical, financial, integration, and documentation. There is much more information, and even a demo, on the site.
20. Epocrates: Get access to accurate, up to date, drug and clinical information with this app. There is even a feature with bed time reading just for medical professionals. Best of all, some versions of it are available for free.
21. Human Atlas: The Blausen application provides point-of-care access to 3D animations of common medical treatments and conditions, with accompanying narration. It contains over 7,000 individual animations and 13,000 illustrations. Use for every medical category from cancer to urinary.
23. MediMath: An iPhone calculator, it puts 133 of the most important medical calculators and scoring tools in the palm of your hand. Determine a patient’s GFR, predict cardiac mortality with the Framingham cardiac risk score, or calculate the reticulocyte index in just a few taps. There are also tons of other calculations, and you can customize for your favorites.
Essential iPhone Apps for Travel Nurse’s Health
Stay on top of your own health during travels by taking a look at these apps.
24. My Life Record: Everything from medical imaging, charts, medications, and even lab results can now be accessed and shared all via your iPhone. While other applications rely on you or your doctor to enter the information, My Life Record uses patent pending technology to take your exact medical record and retain it. An outstanding feature is its ability to display images like x-ray, echocardiogram, ultrasound, and MRI’s.
25. My Health: This app for the iPhone’s dashboard provides simple, easy icon access to a user’s health profile. It can include allergies, prescriptions, conditions, and more. It also enables transport of data to health partners from the web or phone.
26. iEmergency: Like MyHealth, this app can also store all your pertinent medical information. It also includes information such as ICE, allergies, medications, and more. You can even download a free medical ID card as a PDF on the site.
27. ID Lock: Do you have information like family Social Security numbers, medical information, and credit card information written down in your iPhone? Then get ID Lock to protect your personal identification by encrypting and password protecting your data. You can also use it to safely store personal IDs, credit cards, passports, and medical Ids.
28. Close Call: This one-step application saves contact information and emergency summary for first-responders. It puts it all on your wallpaper for easy viewing. Free to download.
Essential Language iPhone Apps for Travel Nurses
Visiting a country or region where patients speak a foreign language? Then try out these apps to help you learn, speak, or even hear the language from your iPhone.
29. Cool Gorilla Phrasebooks: This collection of apps stands out for its ability to actually say the phrase in the language you want to say it in. Simply type in what you want to say and have these apps repeat it in French, German, Spanish, and others. You can also choose a category and sub-category for suggestions on what to say.
30. Audio Phrasebooks: Similar to the above, these apps will speak the phrase in a foreign language from your iPhone. It works with 31 different language combinations including products Japanese, German, Italian, and French speakers. Translations can also be done as phonetic pronunciations if you want to say it yourself.
31. Ultralingua: Get a lightweight language dictionary without all the frills here. The dictionary works for English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and more. There are even Collins titles, which offer premium content with more richly edited entries.
32. TranslateIt!: This app gives you one-click translation of texts from one language to another powered by Google online translation engine. Use for many languages including more ignored ones such as Bulgarian, Croatian, Vietnamese, and others. Best of all it is free.
Essential Map iPhone Apps for Travel Nurses
Learn where you are going, where you are, or where you would like to go with the help of these essential mapping iPhone applications.
33. Google Earth: Virtually visit the location you are going to by downloading this app. It includes high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass. It also comes with features such as local search, motion detection, and panoramio photo layer.
34. TomTom: Never pay for a GPS device again with the use of this app and an iPhone. In addition to the regular features of a mapping app, it can also give you turn by turn directions. There is also a car kit for sale and a music feature.
35. Google Maps: Go beyond the included iPhone app and get more from Google. It allows you to search for business listings, get driving or walking directions, and even view street level imagery. You can also get real time traffic to help you find the fastest route.
36. iPhone Travel Guides: Cool Gorilla brings you complete travel guides to popular destinations. Choose from Bangkok, Cancun, Dubai, and more. It lists the top ten must see sites for each city.
37. City Guides: Similar to the above, these guides will tell you all about your travel destinations. There are currently 20 to choose from including New York, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Seoul, Cape Town, and Mexico City. Best of all there are no roaming costs as these guides are stand alone.
38. Locly: Find nearby attractions, cafes and shops with this app in most countries. You can also look at local photos from Flickr, and pull up Twitter or Wikipedia entries that are close to where you are. It can also save search terms for later reference.
Essential iPhone Apps to Keep Up for Travel Nurses
Stay current with your workload, mail, and more by downloading one of these apps.
39. Yahoo! Go: Send an email, upload photos, download a map, search for answers, check stock quotes, or get breaking news all in one app. There is a guided tour and FAQ if you want to learn more. You can even customize widgets for it such as eBay, Myspace, and MTV.
40. Tweetie: For a couple of bucks, you can get this app to keep up with Twitter. You can handle multiple accounts, retweet, navigate chains, and more. It uses the full Twitter API so there will be little to miss from your iPhone.
41. NatsuLion: Another Twitter application, this one is available at no charge. It allows you to do simple tasks such as display timeline, post, reply, and more. It even allows you to view friend’s conversations.
42. netTV: Afraid of missing your favorite shows during travel? Then get netTV to watch over 200 live TV Channels from different countries on your iPhone. Browse through the various channels, or add the ones you like.
Essential Specialty iPhone Apps for Travel Nurses
Check out these iPhone apps to make your nursing and traveling more safe and fun.
43. Emergency Radio: When the power goes out, only one channel is left. Use Emergency Radio to listen to over 1,000 live police, fire, EMS, and other emergency frequencies. You can even locate nearby frequencies using the Nearby feature.
44. A Free Lever: Just what it sounds like this app is a free lever installed directly to your iPhone. It is ideal for taking perfectly level pictures of groups, horizons, or anything. It even makes a sound when it’s level so you don’t have to look away.
45. Speed: Want to know how fast your plane, train, or boat is going? Then download this app that uses the location data from the GPS in iPhone 3G to provide a near-accurate representation. Both kilometers and miles per hour are supported, along with a landscape mode for widescreen operation.
46. If Found: Losing your iPhone during travel can be a nightmare. The app enables you to create a message and contact information on your own personal wallpaper in case it’s left behind. And the most important part is that this information can be viewed even if the phone is locked.
47. PetMD: Have an animal in need of some assistance? Then visit PetMD to get various apps for your iPhone. Choose from cat or dog emergencies, MD Finder, a list of veterinary terms, and others.
48. Pet First Aid: Another app for animal health, it contains detailed information to help you care for your dog or cat. Videos show you how to restrain, muzzle, CPR, bandaging, and many more. There are also useful illustrations and articles.
49. SodaSnap: Turn any photo into an instant postcard to send to your friends by stopping here. It also allows you to add text and customize. Once finished, you can simply email it to whomever you choose.
50. Travel Tips: Not an iPhone app, but this guide from AT&T is essential for how to use your iPhone during travel without running up a huge bill. It also offers a travel guide that shows you which countries are compatible and allows you to build an itinerary. A must read even if AT&T isn’t your carrier.
Help make your traveling and nursing more efficient, safe, and hassle free by taking a look at these 50 essential iPhone apps for travel nurses. They will help you fly, nurse, eat, and even sleep better.