Medical publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is working with Skyscape, a provider of mobile medical content, to publish PDA resources for use in nursing practice and education.

Titles that are available include the Nursing2004 Drug Handbook, a resource for up-to-the-minute information on over 1,000 generic and 3,500 brand-name drugs; Nursing2004 Herbal Medicine Handbook, a reference about 300 herbal remedies commonly used by patients; Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice: Procedures, which provides step-by-step guidelines for more than 100 procedures in all areas of nursing practice and contains many color images from the text version; and English & Spanish Medical Words & Phrases, presenting English and Spanish translations of medical terms and phrases used in clinician-patient interactions.

Additional titles include the Handbook of Diagnostic Tests; a guide to the full range of commonly performed laboratory and diagnostic tests with key diagnostic findings for more than 500 disorders and complete details on more than 550 laboratory and diagnostic tests; and Lippincott's 2004 Nursing Drug Guide, which has been updated for 2004 with more than 800 complete drug entries.

According to the companies, they plan to release more titles in the near future, including the Nursing I.V. Drug Handbook, Frye's 3000 Nursing Bullets for NCLEX-RN, and A Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests.