Creative Strategies to Teach Healthcare Professionals Using iPad Technology

PUCRS University has been promoting the use of iPads in its classrooms in the light of student familiarity with these mobile devices. The opportunity then arises to use such resources to improve and stimulate the teaching and learning processes. Competence in manual skills and critical thinking are expected from health professionals in order to carry out their work. However, the development of these skills is restricted to real opportunities in the field of practice at a time when the student is experiencing supervised assisted practice. The objective of this article is to report an experience with the use of iPads in the teaching of nursing and nutrition undergraduates, as a creative educational methodology and a tool for the simulation of skills and critical thinking, helping to increase general and specific cognitive abilities in support of problem solving.