 Hey everyone, welcome back to the vlog. I hope you all had an amazing Easter. I know I had the best four days of relaxation and doing pretty much not a lot. Went so fast, didn't it? Anyway, thank you as always for coming and watching my vlogs. Today's vlog is all about my favorite, favorite, favorite nursing apps for your mobile phone. Now, for part of this video, I am going to be using my mobile. So I'm recording on my laptop now. Hopefully it's not gonna make too much of a difference to the quality, but I just wanted to be able to show you the apps as I go. So the first app I want to talk about is the one that I use the most for work, which is the Right Breathe app. Oh, hang on, there. That's what it looks like, a little R and a little B, clicking on it. Here we go, it's just loading. But this is just a brilliant app for all of your inhalers. If you're doing asthma reviews, if you're gonna be the asthma nurse, if you wanna know more about different inhalers, good luck, there's so many. But this is literally all of the inhalers and it's got all the dosage, what they're for. Let me just give you an example. I'm gonna click on the first one. So this shows you the actual inhaler, the device, and it tells you what type of inhaler it is. And then it tells you the medicine that's in it, it tells you the dose, it tells you what it's licensed for. So this particular one is for COPD. And then there's all different links and sources and training. So there's training videos as well. So you can show your patients how to use their inhaler. This is just brilliant. And you can send this information to your patient as well. I know we've got a text system on our computer, so it's just brilliant for that sort of thing. The price, I was so shocked by seeing these prices of these inhalers, it's ridiculous. If you look at this one, this one's foster, it's 29 pounds 32 for one inhaler. Now, if you go to salbutamol, hang on, let me just... Oh yeah, so you can search. So there's a little search thing at the top. So if you press that, sorry, I just went back, salbutamol, and then search at the bottom, and it will come up with the salbutamol. So salbutamol, salmol, ventilin, they're all the same thing. But yeah, if you click on this, 95 pence, look at that guys, look at the price difference. 95 pence, not that it matters. I mean, I prescribe whatever's good for my patient. So yeah, doesn't matter on price to me. But it's just shocking when you look at the prices and stuff like that, and you're just like, what? And it's just all in all a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant app. This is my go-to now at work. I started making flashcards as well from this app so that I had them and I'm trying to remember every single inhaler, because as you can see, there is absolutely a lot. But also, if you're looking at this main page as well, on the main page, it's got what it is. It has the dose there, and it also tells you what type of inhaler it is on the front there. If you can see that, it says llama dry powder, or lava and llama dry powder, or ICS, inhaled quarter steroid inhaler, or a long-acting bronchodilator inhaler. These are all the different types, but this page is good to look at initially because it shows you which type is which, whereas if you click into it, it doesn't really tell you as much as that, but it does give you the details of the dosing and everything, yeah, you get it. Good app. So the next app I want to bring your attention to is one of my absolute favorites, and I have used this recently as well to create a protocol at work. So this one is the NHS Safeguarding app. It looks like this. It's white with NHS Guide and it's Safeguarding. If you Google NHS Safeguarding app, it will come up if you're on Android or iPhone. I'm not sure about other app stores. Really, really sorry about that, but these are all free. I forgot to say, sorry. These are all free apps. Anyway, NHS Safeguarding is brilliant. It's got everything you need to know about Safeguarding. It's got how to raise concerns, the context, the types of abuse, exploitation, neglect. It's got the multi-agency Safeguarding arrangements. It's got Safeguarding Commissions Assurance and NHS and contacts. This is brilliant. If you don't know who your contacts are in Safeguarding, get the contacts. There you go, location of where you need to be. So I am now in Southeast. I'm now in Hampshire area. Are you concerned about a child or young person or concerned about an adult? Let's just say we're concerned about an adult and it takes you straight to the website that you need to be. So there you go. And then it's got all of the contact details. So it's got all the services and everything in Hampshire Safeguarding. It's just amazing. And I used this recently, like I said, to create one of my protocols at work because I had a bit of a situation and I wasn't sure about it. So I had to use the app to do all my Safeguarding stuff. And then I got all the up-to-date contacts and I made a whole protocol for our surgery for it. So this is an amazing app. 10 out of 10 for these apps, guys. Iresus, here it is. It's a little black symbol. It's got a little resus, you know? And this is from the Resus Citation Council UK. This is amazing. It's got all of your guidelines, what to do, how to save lives, everything you need to know, everything. So you've got basic live support, choking advice, advanced live support, in-hospital resuscitation, bradycardia, tachycardia, anaphylaxis, all of these. So let's just click anaphylaxis. Someone's having an anaphylactic shock following their vaccine in your clinic and you're like, oh my God, what do I do? Is there, boom, at the touch of your fingertips, it is there. And then they've got extra little notes that you can click on in the app as well. So if you click on that, there you go. It brings up extra information. It's just such a good, handy app. If you haven't got it, you need to get it because, yeah, it could potentially save a life if you don't know something. And if you're making flashcards again, something like that, really, really great app to go to. Next up, we have Elsevier Nurse Guide. Looks like that, it's a little white symbol with a little cross with different colors. Elsevier Nurse Guide. I'm gonna put all the links below anyway, guys, for all of these apps so you can have a look at them. But this is brilliant. Let's click on it and have a look. So there you go. Again, we have a dictionary. So click on the dictionary. It's got all of your words, all of the abbreviations that you need to know. Then it's got fundamental procedures. So when you click on that, it's got general principles. It's got psychological issues. So go into general principles. Okay, admission to hospital. What is an admission to hospital? So then it's got all the information about that. Common clinical conditions. So this has got the cardiovascular system. You've got the respiratory system, the blood, gastro, renal, nervous, endocrine diseases, the bones and joys, immune system, cancer, and surgery. Everything you need to know in one place. Next up, following the footsteps of Florence Nightgale. Ooh. So a little bit of Florence Nightgale is on there. How cute is that? And then discover the world of nursing with Elsevier. So you click on that and then there you go. But this app is just amazing. It's got everything you really need in one little app. And last but not least, this is the bonus app of bonus. Brucie bonus time. This is called the Notion app here. Little N, little white box. And that is it. Don't judge me by my apps guys. But yes, the Notion app is brilliant. This, my friend told me about this app just recently. I've literally just got it and just downloaded it. But it is amazing. If you are a student nurse, if you're a nurse, if you want to take notes and do things and keep it all in one place. And if you like documenting notes and things on there, this is the app for you. So you can add so many different things. You can personalize it. Look, there's me here, background. You can personalize your background. And then you've got all these different things. You can add journals. You can do a task. You can create like a list as well. Like a planner of your assignments and things like that. It's so good to keep a load of different things in here and a load of notes and things. It's just brilliant. It's a really, really good app. But like I said, I've only just downloaded it. So literally, I have, this is just like an automatic page that they set up. But I've literally changed my emoji and background and that's it so far. But yes, I'm getting, I'm really excited to explore this app a lot more. And there's a lot more actions and things like that that you can do. You can upload Word documents. You can upload videos to it. You can throw everything in one place. So if I've got a load of documents that I want to upload for, let's say an assignment or something, I can upload all the documents and references and I've got it all in one place to plan my assignment. Not that I ever plan assignments. Don't tell your lecturers that I said that. Follow best practice, plan your assignments. Oh, that is it. That was my top five favorite apps with a Brucey bonus at the end with the Notion one, which is a really, really good app to just like I said, keep all your documents and upload plans for assignments and videos or blogs if you do that sort of thing. It's really, really good. So thank you, thank you, thank you to my very good friend who shared that information with me. I am gonna get excited trying that out and planning things in my life, we'll see. So that is it from me. Let me know what you think. Have you got these apps? What do you think about these apps? If there's any other apps you've got? I know I had another one. I think it's called emergency room or something like that. That was quite a good app, but it just took up too much of my time so I had to delete it. But that was a really, I think it was called emergency room. Anyway, but yeah, it was an app where you go in as like an A and E nurse and you have to treat the patient and work out what's wrong with them, stuff like that. It was solid, it was so hard to do. Yeah, it takes up a lot of your time, but if you are interested in that thing and you've got more time on your hands, go for it, download it. But that's the only other app that I can think of that I've had that thought, oh actually that's quite a good app, but I just have not got time. But yeah, if you've got any other apps that you think would be a good app, let me know, what have you got, what do you like about them? Links below, have a look, and I shall see you all next time.