Making a case for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) use in baccalaureate nursing education

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Martin, Rhonda R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baccalaureate nursing education; Handheld computers; Informatics; Nursing informatics; Personal digital assistant

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349033226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10899758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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