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| About the Author |
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| Introduction |
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1 Have Fun With What Technology Has To Offer! |
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Why You Should Want More Tools in Your Handy-Dandy Toolbox |
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A Desire to Improve Your Nursing Care |
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Be a Resource Nerd to Other Nurses and Staff |
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Your Patients Will Benefit From Your Newly Acquired Tech Savvy |
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Ways to Obtain Information |
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2 The Internet And Google's Brilliance |
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Google: The Search Engine |
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33 | (3) |
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38 | (1) |
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Are You Good to Go on Google? |
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3 Social Media: The Easy, Fast, And Fun Way To Communicate |
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Why Nurses Need to Be Involved in Social Media |
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Connecting With the Nursing Community Online |
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HIPAA and Social Media Policies |
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How Hospitals Should Use Social Media |
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Social Media as a Staff Nurse |
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Friending Your Patients on Facebook |
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4 Getting Excited About Computers |
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Using a Computer to Improve Nursing Care |
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Connecting With Your Nursing Tribe |
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Using Your Computer for Nursing |
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Documenting Electronically: All the Cool Kids Are Doing It |
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Tablets Are Where It's At |
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Computers in TVs, Seriously? |
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Take Me Out of the Oven, I'm Done! |
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5 Getting Smart About Smartphones |
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Traveling With a Smartphone |
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Are You Smart About Smartphones Yet? |
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6 Tablets Are Your New Best Friend |
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Easing Yourself Into Technology |
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You're a Consumer, You Need a Consumption Device |
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How Is Using a Tablet Different From Using a Computer? |
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What's the Difference Between Tablets? |
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Features, Apps, and Operating Systems |
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Tablets Make Technology Fun |
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Protecting and Accessorizing Your Tablet |
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How Nurses Can Use Tablets |
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What Doctors Are Already Doing With Tablets |
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The Possibilities for Tablets in Patient Education and Follow-up Care |
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How Patients Can Use Tablets to Improve Their Health Care |
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Improvements in the Patient Experience |
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What Did You Learn About Tablets? |
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7 Electronic Documentation: EHR, EMR, PHR, And Other Digital Documentation |
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The Bittersweet Good-Bye to the Paper Chart |
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Why You Have to Click So Many Boxes |
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Differences Among EMRs, EHRs, and PHRs |
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Meaningful Use: How and Why It Matters to You and Your Patients |
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Wow, That Was Meaningful! |
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8 Career Advancement And Professional Pride |
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Using Social Media to Enhance Your Resume |
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Networking in the Digital Age |
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Adaptability and Flexibility in the Workforce |
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9 The Bigger Picture: Technology Isn't Going Anywhere |
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Congratulations! You've Learned a Ton About Technology! |
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Patients Are Sicker and Computers Are Quicker |
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177 | (2) |
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There Is No Conspiracy to Punish the Well-Seasoned Nurse |
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Be an Advocate for Your Patients, Your Profession, and Your Practice |
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