I didn't grow up with computers. I didn't even take typing in high school - that was for people who wanted to be secretaries! My nursing school papers were done longhand.
The first home computers were so expensive that I didn't even look at them. (In the early 80s, $2,000 was a lot of money!) I clearly remember the first time a friend brought over his "Home PC". He hooked it up to our TV, as the TV screen then became the monitor. He showed me this astounding new feature. He could type a paragraph, and then go back and change a sentence WITHOUT RETYPING THE WHOLE PARAGRAPH! He said it was called "word processing". I was most impressed!
Fast forward: I now have a PC, a Notebook, and a cell phone. It's a somewhat smart phone. At least I can text without using the numbers to select letters.
I took a typing class at the university. Oops, I mean, I took a keyboarding class. I also took a computer class for beginners, and I learned a lot.
I'm fairly efficient at using the PC to do research, and to access my email and Facebook. I enjoy Facebook, although I'm told now that it is old-fashioned.
No, I haven't tried Twitter. Should I?
Even allnurses is new to me; the idea that I can go online and talk to nurses I don't even know. So strange. Yeah, I can do that on Facebook, too, but there I'm talking to my friends - to people that I already know - with strangers listening in. This is different.
It's considered YA, but it's a great book. Of course, I think that we have clones and internet chipped folks walking amongst us, anyway.
Good luck with your DNP!
LOL!!!!!! Thanks!!! I'm the first to volunteer for my iPhone implant as well as donating my body to science (mainly for experiments involving beautiful nurses ) hahahahahahah
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"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by…" (Salt-Water Poems and Ballads by John Masefield)
You would use a sextant. See: How the Sextant works.
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