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The personal digital assistant (PDA) is the newest tool in the academic toolbox. It has broad capabilities and ultimate portability. It is a powerful reference source as well as a computer and communicator that can be stored in a pocket. Today's nursing students are not only comfortable, but ... adept at managing the capabilities of the PDA. Nursing educators must become comfortable with and learn to incorporate this tool into the learning options of future nurses.
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Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have become an increasingly valuable tool in clinical medicine (1–6). Several surveys have demonstrated widespread adoption of PDAs among clinical physicians (1,2); ... no current data exist on the use of PDAs by radiologists. Common PDA applications for clinicians include drug databases, patient tracking applications, medical references and calculators, and documentation and billing software (1–4).
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The Mobile Community Tree Inventory (MCTI), a software program for Windows and Palm operating systems, was developed as a desktop and personal digital assistant (PDA) package. The package provides a versatile tree inventory collection system for municipal tree managers. PDAs and the Palm OS offer a variety of tools to urban and community foresters, tree wardens, and consultants for fieldwork and record keeping. Using the PDA and Palm OS component of the MCTI software package gre
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