Intensive nursing front of organ donation: an integrative review

Abstract

Objective: To identify the productions that address the role of the intensive care nurse in the context of brain death, identifying their results and conclusions. Methods: It was used the literature integrative review in SciELO database with six stages, namely: problem formulation, data collection, data evaluation, analysis and interpretation of results and synthesis of knowledge. The data of the selected articles were organized into tables for better understanding of them. Results: There were 17 articles on theme, of these, 3 had the inclusion criteria of the study. Conclusion: One can see the relevance of a specific knowledge of health professionals, especially nurses, in donation and transplantation area, and the limited number of publications on the subject by the nurses and the precarious approach to donation and transplantation in the curriculum graduation.