Personal digital assistants (PDAs): Review and evaluation

Nursing Education Perspectives

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-182

  Zurmehly, Joyce ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NLN Task Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical nursing; Handhelds; Nursing education; PDAs; Technology; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROCOMPUTER; NURSING EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955478924     PISSN: 15365026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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