Social workers have a tough job. They are working to help clients who aren't always in the best situations. It can be hard to have all the tools you need to do your work with you but these 7 astonishing Android apps for social workers makes it simple.
Drugs And Medications
This is a straightforward app. It gives you information on more than 28,000 generic and prescription drugs. Using this app, you can better understand the medications your clients may be on and possible side effects of those medications. It can help you to know if sudden personality changes are caused by medications or by something else.
iTimeSheet
Social workers need to keep track of what they do and how long they spend doing it. This app allows you to keep a record of what you do each day. You can then perform searches to see how much time you spend on certain activities each week or each month.
First Aid
Hopefully, you will never need knowledge of first aid but if you do you will have it with this app. You will have no doubt already been trained in first aid but in the heat of the moment it can be hard to remember everything. This app will do it for you.
Yellow Pages
Whenever you need to look up someone in the Yellow Pages this is clearly the app to have. You never know what your clients might need but with this app you will be able to locate some good resources.
Remember The Milk
Every social worker needs to have a great task manger app and this is it. Remember the Milk can be used in conjunction with Google Calendar and lets you access your tasks even when you are offline. You can share everything you have to do with other people if they need to know too.
Where
This app tells you how to get anywhere you need to go. It isn't just a provider of directions, however. You tell it what you need and it will help you find it. If you need coffee, a good hotel, or some sort of government office this app can help. It gives you weather information and traffic news as well.
iShatter Stress Relief
If you've ever had a tough day, and if you're a social worker then you've had more than one, then this app can help you to release a little aggression. Essentially, you get to break things on your Android. No real damage is done as you break mirrors, wine glasses, TVs, and more. You can even break a picture of someone who might be the source of your distress. It's amazing what the symbolic gesture of breaking virtual items can do for your stress level.
These 7 astonishing apps for social workers will prove to be useful on almost a daily basis. When you have as much to do as most social workers do then you need to accept a little help. These astonishing Android apps can be that help.
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