Being computer illiterate can affect your work and your credibility as a professional.A. People believe they can get through life with little or no computer knowledge. This is impossible. Cash registers are computers too, and unless you plan on flipping burgers for the rest of your life, you're going to come into contact with a computer sooner or later. A perfect example of computer literacy in the workplace is that of Patricia Robin McCartney, senior clinical nursing instructor, at the Washington Hospital Center's Georgetown Scholars Program, who states in her 2010 article, What is computer literacy? Found in the American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing. That in order to do his job he must be skilled in communication, monitoring, data access, project management, research and the use of hardware and software to document the patient