Nurse² is a Windows forms-based application that takes advantage of Microsoft’s ClickOnce Deployment technology. This combines the robust user interface and responsiveness properties of Windows Forms with the ease of installation and updating of a Web based application. The program lives on the user’s computer but gets updates and talks to a database server “in the cloud” over the internet that Nursing Data Systems hosts. Nurse² checks for updates whenever the user accesses the application and will ask if they would like to update. It is self-contained allowing non-administrative users to install and grants only those Code Access Security permissions necessary for the application. Basically, as long as the user has internet access, you’re done. We've tried to make the software install process as easy as possible.

Nurse² uses MySQL for our database management. MySQL is widely used and supported. We use it for its robust simplicity and stability. It's a trusted and time tested way to store our customers' important data. For these reasons, MySQL helps us maintain high quality, a fact our customers enjoy.