Atuação do enfermeiro da atenção básica nos cuidados paliativos para paciente oncológico

Abstract

The performance of nursing with cancer patients in Palliative Care (PC) in Primary Care (AB) seeks to promote the quality of life of these individuals and their families as a guarantee of comprehensive care, promoting humanized and dignified care, an efficient way to face disease and minimizing suffering. In view of this contest, this study aimed to gather, analyze and synthesize scientific evidence available in the literature, related to the assistance of nurses to individuals in Palliative Care in Primary Care. Therefore, it was an integrative literature review carried out in the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE) via PubMed, and Scientific Electronic Library Online ( Scielo ). Twelve articles were analyzed after systematic selection, synthesized in a table with characteristics regarding their authors, titles, year of publication, objectives, methodology used, and main results and elaborated. The study findings show a deficit in the care of cancer patients undergoing palliative care, as well as in the support of the professional who deals daily in this sector. In view of the literature, it was concluded that specialized health care in oncology care for palliative patients is of fundamental importance and brings multiple benefits to them, however it still faces great difficulties, such as the deficit of trained professionals for this purpose.