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Personal Digital Assistant: Newer Pdas
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Effective August 2006, the nursing program requires that all students purchase a personal digital assistant (PDA) for use in all nursing courses. The cost of the PDA will be billed to the student. The nursing program will purchase the PDA pre-loaded with a nursing software package. The nursing program will distribute the PDA to the student. Students are required to utilize the PDA for clinical research and are required to bring the PDA to all clinical experiences. Students may ... be instructed to bring the PDA to specific classroom activities.
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Although many early PDAs did not have memory card slots, now most have either an SD (Secure Digital) and/or a Compact Flash slot. Although originally designed for memory, SDIO and Compact Flash cards are available for such things as Wi-Fi and Webcams. Some PDAs ... have a USB port, mainly for USB flash drives.
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PDAs can ... use SD (Secure Digital), SDIO and MMS cards. These are easy to remove and are called flash memory cards. USB flash drives can be used to add more memory.
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...SitePRO features a screen three and one half times wider than a standard personal digital assistant (PDA) display and can present complex text-based questions on an easy-to-use touch-screen interface without reformatting. Merging the practicality of a PDA with the functionality of a Tablet PC, SitePRO is an easy-to-use system proven to help patients provide accurate in-clinic reporting."
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Average prices for personal digital assistant range from $150 to $600, although some PDAs can cost as little as $60 or as much as $2,000. The price of the PDA will depend on the model, manufacturer and PDA features.
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It is noted that, as in the case of the personal computers, many of the owners of the PDAs use them only in the most basic of ways and do not even understand the capability of the instrument. The general public as well as the medical community is only beginning to recognize the attributes of the PDA and its impact.
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