Cuidados paliativos de enfermagem ao paciente oncológico terminal com neoplasia de próstata: Revisão de literatura

Abstract

Introduction: Palliative nursing care for patients with prostate cancer involves promoting dialogue, listening skills, safety, valuing complaints, and supporting family members. These actions include therapeutic measures to control physical symptoms; psychotherapeutic interventions; and spiritual support for patients from diagnosis to death. Objective: To demonstrate palliative care for male patients in the terminal stage due to some neoplasia, emphasizing nursing care. Methodology: This is a qualitative literature review, where a meticulous and broad analysis of current publications in a specific area of knowledge was performed. Results and discussion: According to the results, nursing professionals play an important role in the treatment of patients with terminal prostate cancer, because through palliative care, they provide relief from pain and other stressful symptoms, reaffirm life and death as natural processes, integrate psychological, social, and spiritual aspects into the clinical aspect of patient care, and offer a support system to help the family deal with the patient's illness in their own environment. Nursing professionals should communicate in a transparent and compassionate manner, providing comfort to patients and their families. Conclusion: To promote the fight against prostate cancer, nurses should focus on behavioral, cognitive and social interventions such as: guidance on cancer prevention in basic health units, health education in waiting rooms, nursing consultations, schools and other environments; lectures and individual and social guidance, always seeking to convey to the male population the importance of preventing prostate cancer.