RN PocketPal — tools for nurses, on every shift

RN PocketPal

Tools. Support. Care. Every shift.

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Launching Friday, May 29, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET

A pocket-sized clinical brain — built by a nurse, for nurses.

Bedside nurses live across half a dozen browser tabs, dog-eared brain sheets, and screenshots of dose tables. RN PocketPal collapses all of that into one native iOS app — designed for cold hands, gloved fingers, and the speed of a real shift.

Every tool ships offline-first. No PHI ever leaves your phone. The Rhythm Reader is on-device only, and patient names live exclusively in the iOS keychain — never our servers, never anywhere.

The full toolkit on day one.

Twelve tools that cover the realities of a shift — from the first med pass to the last brain-sheet update before you give report. Free tier covers the basics; Pocketpal Pro at $5/mo unlocks the rest. Plus break-time games, study tools, and 14 more — all in the app.

Anchor feature

Rhythm Reader

Point your camera at a telemetry monitor or printed strip. Get a probable rhythm, rate, intervals, and a confidence score — with full top-three alternates. Educational decision-support, not diagnosis.

Brain sheet

Tele, M/S, ICU, ER variants. Allergies, code status, isolation, drips, recent labs with critical-value pills. Long-press to edit anything. Save your own templates.

Drip + dose calculators

Weight-based pediatric and adult dosing, mcg/kg/min titration tables, IV gtts/min, fluid maintenance. Reverse-calc to a target dose. Auto-fills weight from the brain sheet.

Lab reference

Normal ranges with critical-value flags, common panels, age and sex variants. Built for the ranges your unit actually questions at 3 AM.

IV compatibility

Y-site checker for the meds nurses actually run together. Color-coded results, no scrolling through monographs.

Code cards

ACLS, BLS, PALS algorithms, sepsis bundle, stroke, STEMI — fully offline. Big text, fast taps. Designed to be opened during the worst minute of someone's day.

Med-pass timer

Scheduled doses, PRN cooldown reminders, reassessment prompts. Quiet badges instead of alarms. Knows when you're already in another room.

License + CEU tracker

Renewal alerts, CE log, BLS/ACLS expiration tracking by state Board of Nursing. Stops you finding out two days before recertification.

Nurse calendar + pay

Shift schedule, premium-pay flagging, contract day-tracking. Sync shifts to your Apple Calendar so they show up on your iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch alongside your personal events. Built for travelers, PRN pools, and anyone juggling more than one badge.

Practice & Cert

NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN, CNA, CMSRN, CCRN, CEN, and 5 more cert exams. Question bank that refreshes every two weeks with new content — no per-session AI fees, no repetitive questions session over session. Spaced-repetition review + an AI "why I missed this" coach.

Assignment Board

Charge-nurse tool: roster, acuities, pairings, breaks, handoff. Encrypted local-only — survives shift change, never leaves the device.

School Finder

Verified directory of nursing programs across the US + Canada — ADN, BSN, ABSN, MSN, DNP, CRNA, CNM. Schools can claim a profile with their logo, programs, and contact info. School accounts from $100/mo; browsing the directory is free for nurses + students.

Rhythm Reader.

A second pair of eyes on the strip — using the iPhone camera, an on-device neural net, and a classical signal-processing pipeline that traces every R-wave the way a textbook does.

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Scan the strip VisionKit's document scanner — the same tech your bank uses to read a check — auto-detects the strip's edges and crops out the desk, monitor bezel, and surrounding paper.
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Privacy check An on-device redactor scans for any text that looks like a patient identifier and offers to paint it out before analysis ever runs.
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Digitize + analyze Apple's Vision framework reconstructs the waveform from the photo. Pan-Tompkins QRS detection, RR-interval analysis, P-wave search, and atrial-activity heuristics run locally on the Neural Engine.
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Verify with calipers You see a probable rhythm, rate, PR/QRS/QT/QTc, a calibrated confidence score, and the top three alternates. The result lives next to "Verify with calipers" — never replacing your judgement.

Lead II · 25 mm/sec 10 mm/mV

Probable rhythm: Normal Sinus Rhythm · 78 bpm PR 168 ms · QRS 92 ms · QTc 412 ms · Confidence 0.91 (calibrated). Alternates: sinus arrhythmia (0.06), sinus tach (0.02). Educational only — verify with calipers.

Built differently. Priced differently.

Most clinical apps cost $30-40 a month and treat your patient data like a product. We don't do either.

Privacy-first by default

PHI never leaves your phone. No third-party analytics. No advertising SDKs. Patient names live in the iOS keychain, never our servers.

Built by a nurse

14 years of bedside experience designing every screen. Tested by real RNs in tele, ICU, and ED before you ever see it.

Offline-first

Brain sheets, calculators, code cards, and lab reference all work in airplane mode. Hospital basements don't have Wi-Fi.

Educational, not diagnostic

The Rhythm Reader gives you a second pair of eyes — never a substitute for clinical judgement. Every AI result ships with a calibrated confidence score and full intervals.

Get on the list.

First wave goes out the day we launch. Beta is free during the trial window, US-only iPhone for now, no credit card required to start.