title: Evaluation of nursing students about learning with clinical simulation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to describe the contributions of clinical simulation for learning cognitive and procedural attributes through debriefing, from the perspective of nursing students.
  
  
  METHODS
  descriptive exploratory study. Twenty nursing undergraduate students from a university in the interior of the state of São Paulo participated in this study. Data collection was performed at the debriefing stage. Student's perceptions about the simulation, positive aspects and what they could have done differently were registered. The students' statements were grouped according to the central themes and the framework of Bardin's content analysis (2011) and were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  enhancement of active, critical and reflective learning (47.5%) was identified due to the closeness to reality in nursing care (20.3%), manifestation of feelings experienced during the simulation (15.3%) and composition of the scenario (15.3%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the clinical simulation followed by debriefing promotes the understanding of the link between action and achievements in learning.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Carla Regina de Souza
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Marta Cristiane Alves
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Luciana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kusumota
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Chronic Care and Foundations Department, UniversIty of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United State of America.
authors.forename: Vanessa Pirani
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Gaioso
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação Enfermagem Fundamental, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Carolina Lima
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: de Mello
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Emília Campos
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: de Carvalho
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000066908:Simulation Training; D055815:Young Adult