[Advantages of nursing laboratory teaching]

Reviewing the literature, the author describes some advantages of the psychomotor skill teaching at nursing laboratory as a previous training to the clinical service setting. The arguments herein presented are related, first to the ethics (questioning the mistakes made by the trainee on the patient); second, to the psychological nature by pointing out the trainee, the patient and the teacher's conflicts, as well as aspects on the cost-benefit obtained with this preliminary training; and third, to the pedagogy. These last mentioned aspects are supported on the psychomotor learning theories which confirm the importance of a nursing laboratory.