Experience of using a personal digital assistant in nursing practice - a single case study

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 855-862

  Johansson, Pauline ^a   Petersson, Göran ^a   Nilsson, Gunilla ^b  

^a School of Natural Sciences   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Handheld computers; Nurses; Nursing informatics; Nursing practice; Personal digital assistant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCOMPUTER; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING INFORMATICS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING PRACTICE; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING INFORMATICS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 80054013923     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2011.01261.x     Document Type: Article

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