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.

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