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- ItemUsefulness of a personal digital assistant-based advanced practice nursing student clinical log: Faculty stakeholder exemplars.(2006-11-14) Bakken, Suzanne; Jenkins, Melinda; Choi, Jeeyae; Hyun, Sookyung; John, Ritamarie; Joyce, Myra; Lee, Nam-Ju; Roberts, Wm Dan; Soupios, MichaelThe number of health sciences educational programs that are integrating personal digital assistants PDAs into their curricula is on the rise In this paper we report an evaluation of the usefulness of a PDA based advanced practice nursing APN student clinical log through faculty stakeholder exemplars in three areas pediatric asthma care procedures of Acute Care Nurse Practitioner NP students and diagnostic and screening procedures of Women s Health NP students We generated descriptive data through routine queries and through custom SQL queries at the request of a specific faculty member who wished to examine a particular aspect of an educational program In addition we discussed the potential implications of the data with the respective faculty members The exemplars provide evidence that faculty stakeholders found the APN student clinical log to be useful for a variety of purposes including monitoring of student performance benchmarking and quality of care assessments