What nurses need to know about Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Davenport, Colleen B ^a,b,c,d  

^a Salt Lake Community College ^*

^b SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Education; Nursing Informatics; Personal Digital Assistants

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; REVIEW;

EID: 12344281458     PISSN: 10899758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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