Educational gaming in the health sciences: Systematic review

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 259-269

  Blakely, Gillian ^a   Skirton, Heather ^a   Cooper, Simon ^b   Allum, Peter ^a   Nelmes, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Educational gaming; Games; Health sciences; Nursing; Systematic review; Teaching

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; GAME; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING EDUCATION; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; STANDARD;

CURRICULUM; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 58449109726     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04843.x     Document Type: Review

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