Major trends in health-centered nursing professional education and complex thinking

The social distancing policies generated by the pandemic have forced a large majority of universities to modify or rethink the pedagogical models used in the classroom. The development of educational platforms, the use of simulators, virtual laboratories and the development of active methodologies focused on the student’s work have been the essential tools to create more efficient models in terms of teaching and generate greater student engagement. In the field of nursing and medicine, the pandemic has served to generate and consolidate good practices, as well as a change in the teaching paradigms that had traditionally been present in this branch of knowledge. This paper discusses the use of educational platforms, simulators, virtual reality and the technique of self-directed learning as part of the new trends used in the didactics of health careers from the perspective of complex thinking.