Nurses facing palliative care: what has the literature revealed?

Objective: to identify in the literature the nurse's perception of palliative care. Method: this is an integrative literature review, with a qualitative and descriptive approach. The PICo strategy and the combination of descriptors available in the LILACS, BDENF and MEDLINE databases were adopted, from May to June 2022. Results: The articles discuss topics such as the negative and positive feelings experienced by nurses in front of to palliative care, the gap in the training of professionals regarding palliative care and its philosophy, the ambivalence between death and life, between care and suffering. Conclusion: Palliative care by professional nurses permeates content related to negative and positive feelings regarding palliative care, the gap between practice and theory of palliative care, as well as the applicability of its philosophy.