Palm perspectives: The use of personal digital assistants in nursing clinical education. A qualitative study

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Fisher, Kelly L ^b   Koren, Ainat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b ENDICOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

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