TABLE 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Included	Excluded
Nursing students in all part of their educational program	Other healthcare students, nurses, medical staff or other professions
Articles include the influence of simulation dose on nursing students learning	Books and book chapters, conference proceedings, editorials
Scenario‐based simulation	Skills training
Debriefing as part of simulation	Evaluation of clinical interventions
Simulation in a period of time	One or two simulation sessions in less than a week
Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research	Theoretical articles
PhD dissertations	Computer‐based virtual simulation and gaming
Human patient actors or manikins
Published in a peer‐reviewed journal