A nurse educator is conducting a class for new graduates on the computers used in the agency. The students learn that information is entered in the computer by:
1. The secondary storage.
2. A bar code reader.
3. The software.
4. The memory.
2. A bar code reader.
Rationale:
There are many avenues for a user to enter information into a computer, one of which is a bar code reader. A secondary storage system is a system of storing information that has already been entered. Software is a program that tells the computer how to process entered information. The memory is the storage area of the hardware for information that has been entered.
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