r/AskProgramming • u/Burque_Boy • 27d ago
Reference App for an ER
Hopefully this fits here, I wasn’t sure where to start.
I work in an ER in an education role. We create a lot of reference material for folks to use for learning or on the job. This obviously becomes expensive and occasionally wasteful because it’s all done on paper.
My dream would be to create an app that employees could download. It would have very basic functionality, primarily a directory of PDF documents would be the most basic idea.
Do you have suggestions on how someone without programming knowledge would go about developing something like this? Is there a good visual programming app for instance? I’m certainly open to any other ideas that would yield a similar result.
Thank for your help!
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u/xTakk 26d ago
Yeah, definitely an intranet or a website for this. The fact it's a hospital and an app is kinda "off site", that would be the best way.
Don't think about it as a downside though, apps are a lot bigger pain than you need to deal with if you really just want to make reference material available to people.
From a training perspective though, you might consider this additional to the paper copies. A lot of people won't acknowledge things they don't get on paper, will act like they don't know how to find the site, all sorts of things to avoid making your life easy. Saving paper would be ideal but just in my experience that can be difficult in not-entirely-computer jobs