OBJECTIVE: To identify, review, and describe publications of Brazilian operation room nurses. METHODS: An integrated review approach was used to summarize main aspects of research articles on operation room nursing published in Brazilian journals indexed in LILACS, DEDALUS, and SciELO from 1978 through 2006. Fifty six research articles were retrieved and classified on the following six themes: preoperative visit, intraoperative care; postoperative recovery room care; postoperative visit; instrument development and validation, and perceptions of the patient. RESULTS: The research articles addressed issues that facilitated or impeded quality transoperative nursing care. Humanized and individualized transoperative care was found to be important. CONCLUSION: Findings from this review contribute to knowledge development and may influence quality transoperative nursing care to the patient and his or her family.
Perioperative nursing; Nursing, team; Surgery department, hospital