Review of the literature: the use of the role playing in nursing education

Abstract

Integrative review of the literature about the role playing in nursing education. Objective: review of the bibliographical publication survey of nursing, related to the use of the role playing as strategy in the nursing education. Methodology: the bases had been verified COCHRANE, MEDLINE, CINAHL, LILACS, USP/SIBI-Net/ DEDALUS, OVID, ERIC and PERIENF. The different contexts of the thematic Role Playing had been analyzed in four interactive levels. The temporal dimension of selected publications varied in the period of 1994 the 2005. Results: 31 studies had been found that in the contextual analysis had been characterized under the immediate context “The Role Playing and the Person”; under the specific context, the “Course of Nursing and the Profession”; under the context general, the “Role Playing and the School” and related to metacontexto, the “Role playing and the Education”. Conclusion: the concern of the nurse educator with the motivation of the students learning was evident, in search of the construction of the competences of the professional future, where the efficient learning acts in the domain of the reorganization of the concepts, the operative abilities and the personal growth. The role playing values knowing of the student, collaborating for the transformation of the reality and itself even. It makes possible to establish its active participation in the educative process, contributing in the formation of reflective, ethical, critical and creative a professional.