Nursing students' experience of using a personal digital assistant (PDA) in clinical practice - An intervention study

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1246-1251

  Johansson, Pauline E ^a   Petersson, Göran I ^a   Nilsson, Gunilla C ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computers handheld; Intervention study; Nursing informatics; Nursing practice; Nursing students

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STUDENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, NURSING; SWEDEN;

EID: 84884140638     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.08.019     Document Type: Article

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