Nursing diagnoses in oncology palliative care: Integrative review

Abstract

Objectives: To identify the nursing diagnoses found in oncological palliative care according to the NANDA-I taxonomy. Methods: It is an integrative review of the literature in six stages. The search was carried out at the following bases: Medline, Scopus, Cinahl, Lilacs, Cochrane, Scielo and Web of Science, delimited last ten years, with the descriptors: "Diagnosis of Nursing" "Palliative Care at the Terminal of Life", "Nursing Oncology", from November to December 2017, 120 articles were found and ten articles were selected. Results: According to the NANDA-I taxonomy, 32 nursing diagnoses were found, demonstrating the variability and multiplicity of diagnoses identified by nurses during the control of signs and symptoms in palliative care. Conclusion: When identifying a diversity of nursing diagnoses occurring in patients with cancer palliative care, it is concluded that it is necessary to construct a nursing diagnosis of the syndrome to optimize the clinical reasoning of nurses in palliative care.