Taylor's Nursing Skills vs TaskRN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Taylor's Nursing Skills
This medical handbook provides step-by-step instructions for over 180 nursing skills, complete with illustrations and rationales. It's designed for quick access at the point of care, helping nurses understand and perform techniques accurately.
- 180+ step-by-step nursing skills
- Illustrative photos and graphics
- Scientific rationales for actions
- Critical information highlighting
- Patient safety icons
- Skill variations and documentation guidelines
- Full text search and favorites
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ABOUT TAYLOR’S CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS HANDBOOK Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills Handbook delivers guidance on how to perform more than 180 basic and advanced nursing skills at the point of care. Easily locate a particular skill and follow the step-by-step instructions on smartphone and tablet. This app contains hundreds of illustrations and photos to help demonstrate key techniques for each skill. Rationales accompany each nursing action to promote a deeper understanding of the principles supporting nursing care. FEATURES • Step-by-step presentation of 180+ nursing skills • Full-color photographs illustrate key steps • Two-column format provides scientific rationales for each action • Critical information highlighted throughout the resource • Icons reinforce crucial patient safety steps to reduce errors • Skill variations present alternatives for equipment or technique • Presentation highlights the keys of the nursing process • New delegation considerations based on American Nurses Association (ANA) and National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) • Documentation guidelines ensures accuracy in performance and findings • Full TextSearch helps you find topics quickly • “Favorites” for bookmarking important entries Author: Pamela Lynn, MSN, RN Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Powered by: Unbound Medicine Unbound Privacy Policy: www.unboundmedicine.com/privacy Unbound Terms of Use: https://www.unboundmedicine.com/end_user_license_agreement
TaskRN
This app helps nurses manage their patient care tasks efficiently. It allows for creating reminders, receiving automated notifications, and organizing patient information to improve charting accuracy and reduce stress during shifts.
- Patient care reminders
- Automated push notifications
- Task prioritization
- Patient list management
- Accurate charting reference
- HIPAA compliant
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FREE 2-WEEK ACCESS – Create unlimited patient care reminders and receive automated push notifications before the task is due. Stay on task and group your cares with ease. **Designed for CNAs, nursing students, new graduates (BSN, LPN, RN), and experienced nurses. **Trusted by hundreds of nurses across the country. **Extremely easy & effective to use. **HIPAA compliant! Hospital and clinic computers lock you down. Manage your tasks and group your cares as you move freely around your clinical location. Completed tasks are stored so you can reference them in your patient charting. ABOUT TASKRN We know you want to regain control of your shift. In order to do that, you need a reliable tool that helps you prioritize your patient cares. The problem is, there is never enough time to get everything done. This makes you feel stressed, scatterbrained, and unsure of what to do first. We believe you shouldn’t be focused on tasks alone, but instead, focused on providing the best care possible for your patients. We understand it’s paralyzing when you lose your paper brain, which is why we worked with hundreds of nurses to develop a digital tool that organizes your tasks, reminds you when things are due, and allows you to focus on your patients. Here's how it’s done: 1. Download taskRN 2. Plan your work 3. Work your plan 4. Go home on time So, download taskRN today and go from your tasks controlling you, to you controlling your tasks. FEATURES taskRN will keep you on track as you complete your shift. Schedule tasks with ease and sort them to prioritize patient cares. • Add, Delete, Edit Patients – change your patient list as your shift evolves. • Scheduled, PRN, and Departmental Tasks – create single event, repeatable, or departmental specific tasks. • Push Notification Reminders – automatically receive reminders at 60 minutes and 15 minutes prior to the task due time. • Prioritize Tasks – multiple sorting options allow users to prioritize what tasks should be completed first. • Accurate Charting – reference your completed tasks list to improve the accuracy of your charting. **ALL NURSES, click the developer section under this description for a link to the plusRN app. NexGen Clinical Education Privacy Policy: https://www.nexgenclinicaleducation.com/privacy-policy NexGen Clinical Education Terms of Use: https://www.nexgenclinicaleducation.com/terms-of-use-apple
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TaskRN at 67% against Taylor's Nursing Skills's 25%. TaskRN also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months) and rating (4.2 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Taylor's Nursing Skills sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TaskRN sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TaskRN holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Taylor's Nursing Skills's written reviews are positive against 67% of TaskRN's.
Taylor's Nursing Skills ships an update every 14 months, TaskRN every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Taylor's Nursing Skills | TaskRN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (12 ratings) | 4.2 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Unbound Medicine, Inc. | Intuitive RN LLC |
Customer experience
Taylor's Nursing Skills
TaskRN
In-app purchases
Taylor's Nursing Skills
- Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills 2e$44.99
TaskRN
- full access to ClockWise RN14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$49.991 Year
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