Atuação do enfermeiro frente ao paciente terminal na oncologia: uma overview de literatura

Abstract

Cancer is one of the diseases which most attack the world’s population nowadays. The attention given to these patients with palliatives care, has gained space in the nursing assistance, contributing, this way, to raise the quality of these patient’s life. OBJECTIVE: Know the nurses’ actuation in front of the oncological patient in your terminality. METHOD: An “Overview” literature revision was performed with search in the PUB MED data base and health journals, using the descriptors: Medical Oncology. Oncology. Clinic Oncology. Nursing Care. Management. Palliative Care. Palliative Care Programs. Mourning Care. Considering publications between 1994 and 2019, identifying 48 articles which attended to the condicions of inclusion. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: This study has contemplated 48 articles of revison published between 1994 and 2019 in English, among which were included 33 which fully attended to the condicions of inclusion. From the 33 articles analyzed haven classified as integrative revision (10), sistematic revision (20), narrative revision (3). In the analysis of the quality of the reviews, was opted to identify the Factor of Impact and the Jornal’s Qualis. In the articles that weren’t qualified at the Qualis Capes in the nursing field, was performed the conversion of the Factor of Impact for Qualis, using the conversion schedule (Capes, 2017). Was observed that the 48 articles were published in journals with Factor of Impact which varied from 0,48 to 4,3 and all the nursing which were performed for the patient, b) Ways to respect patient’s choices (ethic), c) Formation and capacitation/ nurses’ habilities for the ocnology care e d) emocional support from the nurse. CONCLUSION: The studies analysed demonstraded that there is a deficit in the investiment for the academic training of the nurses in front of a terminal patient. It’s understood that the emocional support to the nursing’s professionals which act in the oncology field is unsatisfactory, so they are following their professional career with a high level of stress in their performance.