Exploring the influence of informatics in Nursing: The Filipino Student Nurses Perspective.
Objective: The study explored the experiences of student nurses at a university in Baguio City with the impact of information and computer technology on appraising and developing their theoretical foundations and clinical competence in nursing. Design: Qualitative descriptive phenomenological study...
| Published in: | Online Journal of Nursing Informatics Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 2 - 3 |
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HIMSS Foundation
Summer2017
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