ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to determine whether nursing
medication errors could be reduced and nursing care provided
more efficiently using personal digital assistant (PDA)
technology. The sample for this study consisted of junior and
senior undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students. By
self-selection of owning a PDA or not, students were placed in
the PDA (experimental) group or the textbook (control) group,
provided with a case study to read, and asked to answer six
questions (i.e., three medication administration calculations
and three clinical decisions based on medication administration).
The analysis of collected data, calculated using a t test,
revealed that the PDA group answered the six questions with
greater accuracy and speed than did the textbook group