The objective of the present study was to identify how nurses releave the post-operative patients pain in the Intensive Care Unit of a general hospital, situated in São Paulo city concil. Participated of this study 14 nurses between 20 and 40 years, and 78,6% were females and 42,9% had 1 to 5 years of professional performance. The data were collected through half-estructured recordered interview and qualitativelly analysed, applying the stages proposed by Bardin(1) . Two categories were found: appraisement of pain and conducts to releave pain. The results displayed that the nurses used as the medicinal therapeutics as the complementaries to pain relief an considered the appraisement of this pain as initial conduct to set up a way to comfort, prevention and relief.
Pain; Nursing; Intensive Care Units; Comfort care