Nurses´ actions for chronic renal patients: reflection of comprehensive care focus

Abstract

Objectives: to identify and discuss the health care activities of nurses to chronic renal patients in hemodialysis treatment. Method: an integrative review of the scientific literature with a qualitative approach, whose purpose was to gather and analyze the findings in databases that have interoperability with the Virtual Health Library (VHL). Results: there were 10 published articles selected between 2005 and 2010 grouped into three themes: Actions Guidance on Health, Family Empowerment, focused care to the family nucleus and Care Surveillance. Conclusion: to enlarge the care focus of hemodialysis services is to promote an arrangement of care practices to the proposal for comprehensive care, which adds to expertise a look under the sociocultural dimensions of user needs.