The nurse’s vision on palliative care with elderly: a systematic review

Introduction: nurses are responsible for assessing and monitoring changes in patients’ conditions, coordinating care, administering medications accurately and communicating with patients and their families. It is necessary to manage staff and cooperative that the nurse must deal with the patient. Palliative care is the exercise of the art of caring combined with scientific knowledge, in which an association of science and art provides relief from suffering related to a disease. Methodology: This is a systematic review of the literature, of an exploratory and descriptive nature with a qualitative approach. Inclusion requests were original articles published from 2008 to 2019, in Portuguese or English. 120 studies were found, of which 107 were excluded because they did not correspond to the central theme, restoring 13 articles selected within the inclusion criteria mentioned above. Conclusion: The studies analyzed to suggest the need for qualification and training based on a holistic and humanized approach. This can be applied both to assist the patient and the nurse with a morbid context, something that was pointed out as a difficulty.