title: Are you ready for the net generation or the free agent learner?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA. lyn.desilets@villanova.edu
authors.forename: Lynore D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Desilets
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000639:trends*; D009726:Nurses / Q000639:trends*