Open AccessEducationComputer ScienceMedicine

M.J.S. Silveira, A. Cogo

2017.6.23Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem

DOI: 10.1590/1983-1447.2017.02.66204

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Different formats of digital educational technologies used in teaching Nursing skills such as videos, learning management system, applications, hypertext, games, virtual reality simulators collaborated in the acquisition of theoretical references that subsidize the practices, enhancing the teaching and enable the use of active learning methods.

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.

Citation format

SILVEIRA, M.J.S.; COGO, A. The contributions of digital technologies in the teaching of nursing skills: An integrative review. Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem, 2017, 38 2: e66204.