Nurse's Drug Handbook

Name: Nurse's Drug Handbook
Rating: 4.6 (1412 reviews)
Author: Atmosphere Apps, Inc.

By: Atmosphere Apps, Inc. App

Rx pharmacology reference

Overview

Version:

3.6.1.781

Last updated: 2025-02-14

Ranking

#50,634 ▼ 364

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Nurse's Drug Handbook is a portable, affordable pharmacology reference for nurses and nursing students. It delivers accurate, timely facts on hundreds of drugs, alphabetically organized entries, dosing information, drug interactions, adverse reactions, and essential nursing considerations.

Features include an index of generic and brand names, FDA pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule, mechanism-of-action illustrations, patient teaching points, personalized note taking, and auto-renewing updates to keep content current.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Education Books

By:

Atmosphere Apps, Inc.

Rating:

4.60

(1,412) 1 ratings

Version:

3.6.1.781 Last updated: 2025-02-14

Version code:

872242289

Creation date:

2015-03-12

Compatible devices:

Size:

196.31MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-18

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# 50,634 ▼ 364

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Developed by:

Atmosphere Apps, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nurses-drug-handbook/id955936241

Website:

http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781284054613/

User Reviews

Users praise the Nurse's Drug Handbook app for quick, easy access to drug information and day-to-day usefulness for nurses and students. However, repeated complaints center on incomplete drug coverage, outdated content, and frequent missing meds, especially newer or common drugs. Additional frustrations include a paywall/subscription model that users feel doesn't deliver, and problematic searchability or navigation after updates. Reliability and data accuracy concerns appear in some reviews. Overall, it's seen as a helpful reference when it has the drugs you need, but many users question its comprehensiveness and value.

Pros

Easy to navigate app with quick access to drug information.
Extremely useful resource for nursing students and clinicians; used daily.
Portable, handy alternative to carrying the thick handbook and faster for look-ups.
Well laid-out information that supports quick reference.

Cons

Incomplete/missing drugs; many medications (including common and newer ones) are absent from the app.
Content is outdated; updates are infrequent and newer meds often don't appear.
Paywall/subscription model causes frustration; many drugs require extra purchases and cancellation/refund issues.
Search and navigation usability degraded; difficult to find drugs and some category browsing is missing.

Recent reviews

I bought this because I’m going through nursing school and thought it would be a good resource. This book doesn’t have a lot of the medications we encounter in school. An even bigger concern is the medications they do have are listed with the same side effects. You can’t determine what side effects some medications have because they list all of the same stuff for each drug. When you leave a bad review all that’s asked is “can you send us a message with what we can improve on?” even if it’s in the review. This app is hardly updated. I don’t recommend this app for those going through school.