title: Clinical case in digital technology for nursing students' learning: An integrative review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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?
  
  
  METHODS
  data bases LILACS, PUBMED, CINAHL and Scopus.
  
  
  METHODS
  the search resulted in 437 studies: 136 from LILACS, 122 from PUBMED, 104 from Scopus and 75 from CINAHL. Of these, 143 did not meet the including criteria, 93 were duplicated and four studies were unavailable. After analyzing all abstracts based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, there were selected 197 studies and after full text analysis the final sample resulted in 21 primary studies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Case study use in educational digital technologies allowed the students to build different types of learning: cognitive learning (n 16 studies), attitudinal learning (n=12 studies) and procedural learning (n=8 studies).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is possible to conclude that case studies can collaborate with the students to develop different learnings which can be built integrate, continuous, informative and formative, aiming integral formation and aligned to policies of formation in nursing, both national and international.
authors.affiliation: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cristina Yuri Nakata
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.affiliation: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil.
authors.forename: Natália Del Angelo
authors.initials: Ndel A
authors.lastname: Aredes
authors.affiliation: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luciana Mara Monti
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.affiliation: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil.
authors.forename: Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.affiliation: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rosangela Andrade Aukar
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Camargo
authors.affiliation: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil. Electronic address: fersngoes@eerp.usp.br.
authors.forename: Fernanda Santos Nogueira
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: de Goes
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords: Case studies; Computer-assisted instruction; Nursing Student; Nursing education