Experiences of implementation and performance of palliative care teams in hospital institutions: integrative review: Experiences of implementation and performance of palliative care teams in hospital institutions

• Autor(a) principal: Lovison, Robson
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde (Santa Maria)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistasaude/article/view/69495
• topic: Cuidados Paliativos; Hospitais; Enfermagem; Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente; Palliative Care; Hospitals; Nursing; Patient Care Team

Palliative care consists of a set of actions based on people with serious health-related suffering. In hospitals, the formation of qualified teams has been recognized as fundamental for planning, consulting healthcare professionals, as well as for providing integrated care to healthcare teams. To describe the implementation experiences and practices of Palliative Care teams in hospitals, described in the literature. Integrative review carried out in June 2021, through research of articles published in the Virtual Health Library, from January 2016 to March 2021, using as Descriptors: palliative care, multi-professional team, patient care team and hospital. The models highlighted by the studies are palliative care teams in a consultancy format; direct patient care at the request of the health team and; recently, in some countries, integrated into the system and acting autonomously. There is resistance in the implementation and performance of palliative care teams in hospitals, especially on the part of doctors, who also resist participating in the teams. However, the results achieved have contributed to breaking down barriers and promoting the evolution of these teams. There is a tendency to abandon exclusively consultative and/or on-demand models, to change them in to teams that work integrated and active at all levels of care. Recognizing the importance of nursing for the implementation and practices of Palliative Care teams in hospitals. Keyword: Palliative Care; Hospitals; Nursing; Patient Care Team