The contributions of digital technologies in the teaching of nursing skills: an integrative review
Maurício de Souza Silveira, Ana Luísa Petersen Cogo, Maurício de Souza Silveira, Ana Luísa Petersen Cogo
Abstract
Objective: To analyze the contributions of digital educational technologies used in teaching nursing skills.
Method: Integrative literature review, search in five databases, from 2006 to 2015 combining the descriptors 'education, nursing', 'educational technology', 'computer-assisted instruction' or related terms in English.
Results: Sample of 30 articles grouped in the thematic categories 'technology in the simulation with manikin', 'incentive to learning' and 'teaching of nursing skills'. It was identified different formats of digital educational technologies used in teaching Nursing skills such as videos, learning management system, applications, hypertext, games, virtual reality simulators.
Conclusions: These digital materials collaborated in the acquisition of theoretical references that subsidize the practices, enhancing the teaching and enable the use of active learning methods, breaking with the traditional teaching of demonstrating and repeating procedures.
Source: PubMed