In 90-minute sessions, students listen to five kinds of heart murmurs up to 400 times each using the iPod, according to the university’s web site.
Temple University officials said training students to identify potentially life-threatening heart conditions by listening to abnormal heart beats would save money on pricey tests designed to classify which treatment would cure a murmur.
UCLA’s iPod Touches come with three applications designed for nursing students hoping to excel in the classroom and in the hospital, where they get hands-on professional experience.
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An app called “Medical Spanish” is designed to help student nurses communicate better with Spanish-speaking patients. The program—stocked with more than 3,000 phrases—translates the students’ English questions into Spanish, making it a handy tool in Southern California, where about half the population is Hispanic, according to UCLA.
The students also will have access to “Nursing Central,” an iPod Touch app that has a constantly-updating database of about 5,000 drugs and which conditions they were meant to treat. The app has a range of lab and diagnostic tests and offers access to definitions for 60,000 medical terms.
Perhaps most important to a nursing student’s academic success, UCLA’s iPod Touches come with an application called “NCLEX Review,” designed to help students study for a board examination they must pass before they can become a registered nurse.
Courtney Lyder, dean of the UCLA nursing school, said the inclusion of iPod Touches in the school’s curriculum wouldn’t mean the elimination of traditional nursing practices, but rather a more efficient way to sift through massive databases of information available to medical professionals.
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