A autuação do enfermeiro frente aos cuidados paliativos na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva
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2020-09-22
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Universidade Catolica de Salvador
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.
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Cuidados de Enfermagem, Cuidados Paliativos, Cuidados Críticos, Nursing care, Palliative care, Critical Care