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A model nursing computer resource center.

Sheryl S Mueller·Richard L Pullen·K Sue McGee
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Nursing graduates are required to demonstrate computer technology skills and critical reflective thinking skills in the workplace. The authors discuss a model computer resource center that enhances the acquisition of these requisite skills by students in both an associate degree and vocational nursing program. The computer resource center maximizes student learning and promotes faculty effectiveness and efficiency by a "full-service" approach to computerized testing, information technology instruction, online research, and interactive computer program practice.

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Sheryl S Mueller, Richard L Pullen, K Sue McGee. A model nursing computer resource center.. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006223-200205000-00007

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