| Sumario: | Caring behaviors demonstrated by the nurse facilitate the nurse-patient relationship and may ultimately promote healing. In already crowded curricula, nursing educators strive to incorporate the concept of caring. Moreover, today's complex, information-driven healthcare climate calls upon educators to prepare students to use information and document care appropriately, often in an electronic format. Although seemingly disparate, high-tech documentation and technology can augment and support aspects of caring in the nurse-patient relationship. This occurs through enhanced caring communication, information access, and time-saving elements demonstrated and practiced by simulation techniques. This article provides a review of technology and simulation in nursing education and discusses the use of simulation as a means to incorporate electronic documentation into the caring nurse-patient relationship.
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