A autuação do enfermeiro frente aos cuidados paliativos na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva

Abstract

In palliative care, the focus of attention is not the disease, but the patient, understood as an active being, with the right to information and full autonomy for decisions regarding his treatment. Objective: To learn about the production of literature regarding nursing care for patients under palliative care in the Intensive Care Unit. Methodology: This is an integrative literature review article using the descriptors: nursing care, palliative care and critical care with a time frame from 2010 to 2019 in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Results: 206 articles were found keeping eight articles as the final sample. The analysis of the studies made it possible to identify that nurses must be qualified and trained to develop activities in the intensive care unit, including pain relief and tube insertion, and especially to assist patients in palliative care, to have good communication between their team and with family members is indispensable. Final considerations: It is concluded that it is important that all patients receive palliative care regardless of social and financial conditions, as it is everyone's right to maintain a quality of life, even if it is at the end of life, and that nurses have the role important in the care provided to them as they spend most of the time accompanying the treatment.