This work consists of a bibliographical search whose objective was to raise from scientific national literature, from the last 10 years, relevant articles about humanization in intensive care units related to the adult patient, family and nursing staff focusing on the principal strategies used and the difficulties found for its implementation. For the selection of the articles some inclusion criteria have been stablished and after the definition of these articles, it has been made a reading and a describing analisys of them. The results obtained with the analisys of the information identified that, although the theme "humanization" has been a lot mentioned over the last 10 years, this mentioning has happened in a way to define, searching for its theorical bases on the theme, associating its dayly experiences while professionals that have actually worked in intensive care units, showing the many difficulties for the implementation of humanized care, however, with very few available suggestions of such strategies.
Humanism; Intensive Care Units; Nursing
