Desilets Lynore D
College of Nursing, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA.
J Contin Educ Nurs. 2011 Aug;42(8):340-1. doi: 10.3928/00220124-20110722-02.
The newest generation of soon to be health care professionals was raised by Father Google and Mother IM. The world has been a connected place for them their entire lives. They are experts at multitasking. They prefer electronic over print news, dictionaries, and maps; cell phones that do more than make phone calls; e-mail exchanges over face-to-face visits; online payments over checks; and credit cards over cash. In this column, I share some information about technology and these digital natives that I, a digital immigrant, have recently discovered.
