The contributions of digital technologies in the teaching of nursing skills: an integrative review

摘要

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 a??education, nursinga??, a??educational technologya??, a??computer-assisted instructiona?? or related terms in English. Results Sample of 30 articles grouped in the thematic categories a??technology in the simulation with manikina??, a??incentive to learninga?? and a??teaching of nursing skillsa??. 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.