Psychiatric Nursing vs NurseScript
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Psychiatric Nursing
This comprehensive resource helps develop individualized care plans for psychiatric patients. It covers diagnostic information, safe medication administration, and includes updated content reflecting the latest DSM-5 guidelines and psychotropic medications. The app is designed for various healthcare settings and offers powerful search functionality.
- Diagnostic information for care plans
- Psychotropic medication guide
- DSM-5 organized content
- Detailed nursing diagnoses and interventions
- SmartSearch technology
- Offline content access
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"Try before you buy" - Download the FREE App, which includes sample content. In-App purchase required to unlock all content. Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications, is the most complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients. It’s really two resources in one! The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be applied to a variety of healthcare settings…from in-patient hospitalization through the outpatient clinic…to home health and private practice. Completely revised and updated throughout, tthe latest edition reflects all of the new knowledge and new medications in the field, including the DSM-5, and all of today’s new psychotropic medications. Key Features * Index of Client Behaviors with page numbers listed on inside covers. * Concept Mapping and the use of Concept Care Map Plans introduced in Chapter 1. * Organized by DSM-5 and diagnoses. * Nursing diagnoses and interventions include the definition, possible etiologies ("Related to ..."), defining characteristics ("Evidenced by ..."), objectives broken down to show long- and short-term goals, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria. * Each psychiatric disorder lists background assessment data, predisposing factors, symptomatology, and nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions commonly associated with the disorder. * Unit on psychotropic drug classifications covers anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian drugs, sedative hypnotics, and agents for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. * Indications, route, and dosage listed for individual drugs as well as for classifications. * No internet connection is required to access the content after the initial download. Find information quickly using powerful SmartSearch technology. Search part of term for those hard to spell medical terms. New To This Edition * UPDATED & REVISED! All content, thoroughly revised and updated, reflects the education and practice of nursing today. * UPDATED! Coverage of psychiatric disorders reflects the DSM-5. * EXPANDED & UPDATED! Section on psychotropic medications includes the addition of medications available since the last edition and the deletion of those discontinued. * NEW! New content on factitious disorder • Munchhausen syndrome • working with military families. * EXPANDED! More communication interventions in the care plans to reinforce the emphasis on therapeutic communication. * NEW! Two additional rating scales in the appendix…The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale. Awarded second place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing category ISBN 10: 0803642377 ISBN 13: 978-0803642379 SUBSCRIPTION : Please purchase a yearly auto-renewing subscription to receive content access and available updates. Yearly auto-renewing payments- $36.99 Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal can be disabled at any time by going to your device “Settings” and tapping “iTunes & App Store”. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. If you have any questions or comments, email us any time: customersupport@skyscape.com or call 508-299-3000 Privacy Policy - https://www.skyscape.com/terms-of-service/privacypolicy.aspx Terms and Conditions - https://www.skyscape.com/terms-of-service/licenseagreement.aspx Author(s): Mary C. Townsend Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
NurseScript
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NurseScript lives between your brain and the chart. Speak or type what happened, get a clean SBAR, SOAP, DAR, PIE, or narrative note — and let ChartGuard show you what a note like yours usually includes, before you save it. CHARTGUARD Falls, change in condition, wounds and skin, behavioral events — each kind of note has its own list of what nurses are commonly expected to document. ChartGuard reads what you wrote, shows you the items it doesn't see yet, and asks you about them: post-fall vitals, neuro checks, who was notified and when. Tap what you observed or answer in your own words, and NurseScript drafts the lines from your answers. You read the suggested note and accept or decline each addition. Nothing is added to your note until you accept it, and nothing is written from anything you didn't say. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Dictate notes hands-free and get formatted documentation back • Write and organize notes in SBAR, SOAP, DAR, PIE, or narrative styles • See what a fall, wound, behavioral, or change-in-condition note is missing with ChartGuard • Sketch, annotate, scan, and attach images on a full notepad canvas • Generate NANDA-based nursing care plan drafts to work from • Search across every note instantly • Export a single password-protected backup you fully control BUILT FOR PRIVACY Your notes are encrypted on your device and protected behind Face ID / Touch ID. Nothing is posted to a public feed or shared without you. You can export an encrypted backup and restore it on a new device. MADE FOR NURSES AND STUDENTS Whether you're on the floor or in clinicals, NurseScript helps you document faster and study the structure of good notes. PLANS NurseScript is free to start. Pro unlocks AI-assisted formatting, ChartGuard, and care plan drafts; Pro + Voice adds unlimited voice dictation and transcription. Subscriptions are billed through your Apple ID and renew automatically unless canceled; manage or cancel anytime in Settings. NurseScript supports your documentation workflow. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations, and does not replace clinical judgment or your facility's systems and policies. Privacy Policy: https://shemaiah7.github.io/nursescript-privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: NurseScript at none against Psychiatric Nursing's shown. NurseScript also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). Psychiatric Nursing's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.5). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Psychiatric Nursing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $27.99 per year and NurseScript sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Psychiatric Nursing ships an update every 7 months, NurseScript every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Psychiatric Nursing | NurseScript |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Skyscape Medpresso Inc | Shemaiah Sanders |
In-app purchases
Psychiatric Nursing
- 25%off sub-Psychiatric Nursing$27.991 Year
- 20% offer for Limited period$29.491 Year
- Psychiatric Nursing 1Y Suboff$29.991 Year
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- 15%off sub-Psychiatric Nursing$31.491 Year
- Psychiatric Nursing 1/Y Sub$36.991 Year
NurseScript
- Pro$9.991 Month
- Pro + Voice$19.991 Month
- Pro$99.991 Year
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- Pro + Voice$199.991 Year
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