Google Chrome browser is gaining stability and usefulness with the addition of many new extensions. While there are no extensions that deal with health issues or nursing yet (although developers have created sports extensions), you might find the following tools useful for a faster Web experience, to help organize your life and to communicate with your friends, peers and colleagues in our list of 25 Google Chrome extensions that every nurse could use.

You can find many more extensions for your Google Chrome experience at the extensions Web site, including ways to relax with various television extensions and music apps.

Tools for Faster Web Experiences

Time is valuable, and some Google Chrome extensions can help speed up the time you spend on the computer.

1. ChromeVis magnifies any selected text on a Web page. The magnified text is displayed inside of a separate lens and preserves the original page layout.
2. FastestChrome saves time and enhances your productivity. Get quick definitions, auto-load next pages, search faster, and more. This extension is based upon FastestFox, one of the most popular Firefox extensions with over 10 million users.
3. Google Translate extension translates entire Web pages into a language of your choice with one click.
4. Keyboard Navigation extension allows you to forget your mouse and browse the Web with your keyboard instead.
5. News Reader extension adds a button to your browser toolbar that you can click to view the 5 most recent Top Stories on Google News (U.S. edition).
6. Readability Redux 1.2 is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
7. TidyRead renders web pages with better readability as an-easy-to-read manner, similar to eBooks, by accurately extracting the context text and removing the cluttered materials.
8. Virtual Keyboard lets you type in your language (over 70 different keyboard layouts) using the keyboard layout familiar to you. It pops up on every page with input text boxes and text areas.
9. WOT is a Web of Trust tool that warns you about risky sites that cheat customers, deliver malware and/or send spam.

Organization

Another way to save time is to be more organized. These Google Chrome extensions can help you organize your work and personal life.

10. ChromeMilk is a Remember the Milk extension for Google Chrome, and it lets you access your tasks right from your Chrome toolbar. This tool is useful for anyone who uses a free Remember the Milk membership.
11. Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer automatically previews PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.
12. Feedly, based upon Google Reader and Twitter, organizes you favorite sites into a magazine-like start page for an easy way to view your tasks and news for the day quickly.
13. Glide OS Chrome Extension provides cloud-based tools and web applications for searching, categorizing and sharing the web. With a Glide OS Account, this Google Chrome Extension adds a toolbar button for access to the Glide OS and its communication and productivity tools.
14. Google Tasks extension allows you to access Google Tasks from any web page at any time. Great for just jotting something down or checking your agenda.
15. Mark for Later allows you to add a URL to the Read It Later list by simply clicking on an icon in the address bar. Or simply click on the icon again to remove an URL that is already on the RIL list.
16. Note Anywhere allows you to make notes on any web page, any position. when you open that page again, the notes get loaded automatically.
17. OneLogin for Google Chrome provides single sign-on and identity management for organizations that embrace cloud computing. Because OneLogin itself is hosted in the cloud, you can get up and running in a matter of minutes.
18. Remember The Milk for Gmail provides one way to manage your tasks in Gmail through your free Remember the Milk account.
19. Xmarks Bookmarks Sync synchronizes across multiple computers, and across web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. After you install the add-on, click on the notification to set up Xmarks and start backing up and synchronizing your bookmarks.

Communication

No matter if you communicate with peers at work or with friends and family, these Google Chrome extensions can help you to stay in touch easily.

20. Chromed Bird is a Twitter extension that allows you to follow your timelines and interact with your Twitter account without using another app.
21. Follow-up Robot for Gmail launches personalized follow-up email campaigns as you surf your email.
22. Google Mail Checker displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox.
23. Gmail Notes allows you to add a note to conversations in Gmail. This is useful if you want to save a payment confirmation code with an emailed invoice, passwords with new account emails, or information pertaining to an email gained from different channels of communication.
24. Google Voice allows users to make calls, send SMS, preview Inbox, and get notified of new messages.
25. SquawkBeyond is the quick and easy way to exchange chat messages with your friends, family and work associates.

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