Digital video as a teaching strategy in nursing

Information and communication technologies have brought about profound changes in the means of teaching by incorporating some new ones and changing many of the methods and techniques used until then. The appropriate use of teaching strategies will make it easier to present the information to be learned in an organised way allowing the student to focus attention and visualise ideas in a coherent non-linear way with a sense of the whole and of significant parts. This requires the design and application of strategies that contribute to the achievement of meaningful learning as well as institutional goals. The teacher must intentionally design and use strategies that stimulate students to construct knowledge in an active and meaningful way. Among these strategies is the digital video which is a didactic resource that is easy to access and use where the student and the teacher interact actively using it as a means of observation expression self-learning and help using it permanently as a support tool for the delivery and study of specific content.