ATRIBUIÇÕES DO ENFERMEIRO EM UMA UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA ADULTO: revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

Care centered on the critical patient is an increasingly relevant theme in the scientific literature and is the target of new studies. Critically ill patients are those with a potential risk of death, requiring specialized care in environments that are properly prepared to receive and serve this public with a high level of treatment complexity. Therefore, the study aims to analyze in the scientific literature the main attributions of the intensive care nurse in relation to good nursing practices within an adult intensive care unit. This is an integrative literature review, descriptive and qualitative approach, carried out in the first half of 2021, in the database of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) using the following descriptors (DeCS/MEsH): Intensive nursing care; Adult Intensive Care Unit and Intensive Care. This integrative review consisted of 8 articles that met the previously established inclusion criteria. The present study enabled the analysis of nurses' attributions in an adult Intensive Care Unit, where they play an essential role in decision-making, training and management of the nursing staff and in the execution of more complex procedures and corroborates the need for representativeness of the professional nurse in the sphere of research, and its scope is to contribute and encourage the production of new scientific research with an emphasis on the care role of nurses in Adult Intensive Care Units.