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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ750588 |
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Table of Contents:
- Nurse Refresher Students Get a Hand from Handhelds Colevins, Helen Bond, Diana Clark, Kathy Educational Technology Nurses Medical Libraries Hospitals Nursing Education Reentry Workers Computers Computer Uses in Education Professional Development Clinical Experience Computer Software Computer Attitudes Returning registered nurses face an uphill challenge when re-entering their field. To help ease the technology shock for nurses who have been out of the field for more than 5 years, info pros in one medical library collaborated with administrators of a nursing education program to purchase Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and load them with appropriate software as a strategy to expedite the students' orientation to the clinical area during their rotations in hospitals. This article describes the steps they followed and what they learned.