The study had as goal to analyze the scientific production of nursing in the cancer palliative care in the intensive care units. It is an exploratory, descriptive, retrospective and bibliographic search of 23 articles produced from 2000 to 2010. The methodological - theoretical reference was the Methodology of Epistemological Categorization for the search in the Nursing with emphasis in the constitution of the theme or of the resource problem. The results show that the produced knowledge is concentrated in the international field, predominantly in the adult intensive care sector. The analysis of the focused themes shows the phenomenon comprehension in the subjective sphere, in the nurses' view as people/awareness of the knowledge for the understanding of Nursing situations related to the strategies and obstacles to the implantation of cancer palliative care in this field beyond the contributions of the cancer palliative care to customers and family. The repercussions demonstrated in the eminent epistemological aspects enable to assert that the Nursing Care to people with advanced cancer without possibilities of cure in the intensive care unit is full of challenges which demand investigations to subsidize criterions and strategies for performance of the Nursing team with these customers.
Cancer Nursing; Palliative Care; Intensive Care Unit; Search in Nursing
