Design and evaluation of a 3D serious game for communication learning in nursing education.

Background: Communication is essential for nursing practice; such competence is not intuitive and must be taught. Serious games in 3D virtual reality can support the nursing teaching-learning process; students connected to the virtual world can apply what they have learned in their professional practice.

Aim: To describe the design and heuristic evaluation of a serious game in 3D immersive VR for the development of communication competence.

Clinical case in digital technology for nursing students' learning: An integrative review.

Objectives: This review aimed to analyze the available evidences in literature about clinical case studies inserted in digital technologies for nursing education, characterizing the technology resources and cognitive, procedural and attitudinal learnings.

Design: Integrative review of literature with the following steps: development of the research problem, data collection, data extraction and critic evaluation, data analysis and interpretation and presentation of results. The research question was: how does the clinical case study inserted in educational digital technology collaborate for cognitive, attitudinal and procedural learning of nursing students?

Data Sources: data bases LILACS, PUBMED, CINAHL and Scopus.

Learning needs of Nursing students in technical vocational education.

Objective: Identify learning needs of students of Technical Vocational Education (TVE) in Nursing. Qualitative study conducted in a city of São Paulo state.

Method: The subjects were students, teachers and coordinators of TVE and students of the bachelor degree who have had contact with TVE.