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Membership Demographics |
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PDA Usage Patterns |
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Summary |
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As of September 19th 2003 at 7:47 AM
ATL, the total number of members of our listserv was 835 * |
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299 of the members had completed the Nursing
PDAs Listserv Survey |
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Representing approximately 36% of the membership
at that time |
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* Membership has since grown to more than 885 |
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Age of the membership |
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Gender of membership |
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Education level of the membership |
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Employment background of the membership |
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Other areas of Nursing include, but are not limited to: Community
Health, Home Care, |
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Military, Nursing Homes, Private Practice, Private
Industry, Research, School Nursing |
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Note Totals will exceed 100% as many nurses
fulfill more than one function |
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Length of time using PDAs |
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Preferred PDA Operating Systems (OS) |
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Most Popular PDAs |
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The Most Important Functions of a PDA in Nursing |
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The Number of Healthcare Applications on Our
PDAs |
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The Most Popular Drug Guides |
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Almost ¾ (74.91%) of the members choose to use
the Palm OS exclusively. |
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While another 9.96% of our membership are using
the Palm OS in conjunction |
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with the Pocket PC. A total of 84.87% of our
members are Palm OS users. |
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Survey respondents were asked: |
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“How
would you rank the importance of the following uses of a PDA? |
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Survey respondents were asked: |
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“How
would you rank the importance of the following uses of a PDA? |
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Survey respondents were asked: |
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“How
would you rank the importance of the following uses of a PDA? |
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Slightly more than 20% of our members have yet
to load any healthcare apps on their PDAs. |
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While more than ½ (55.2%) have 3 or more
healthcare applications installed on their PDAs. |
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Currently our members rank the above mentioned
uses of a PDA relatively low. |
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However we believe that these uses will increase in importance as more and
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of our members upgrade their PDAs to newer
models with built-in wireless capabilities |
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Notes