The importance of nurses in integrative and complementary practices in the unique health system

Abstract

Integrative and Complementary Practices (PICS) rescue the different knowledge related to health care and happen concurrently with care practices. Objective: To reveal the importance of nurses in integrative and complementary practices in the Unified Health System Method: Integrative literature review carried out by crossing the descriptors standardized by the MESH ("Complementary Therapies", "Primare Health Care" and "Public Health Nursing") and their analogues in Portuguese (DeCS) and Spanish in the Medline, Cinahl and Lilacs databases. The selection process of the articles considered the PRISMA recommendations and the articles were classified according to the level of evidence using the American AHRQ framework. Result: 282 articles were found, of which five addressed the proposed theme and were selected for the sample. Conclusion: PICS favor greater interaction between nurse-patient and, through the construction of new knowledge, develop formidable strategies to face existing health problems.