Abstract

Introduction:  Traumatic brain injury is a disabling event of worldwide importance with significant morbidity and mortality worldwide.

Objective:  The aim was to analyze the international scientific evidence on the nursing process of caring for adult patients with traumatic brain injury.

Method:  This was an integrative review conducted from February to March 2020 in six databases. The descriptors "hospitalized patients", "critical care", "nursing care", "nursing process", "traumatic brain injury" and "multiple traumatic brain injury" were matched through the Boolean operators AND/OR. The studies were analyzed through a data reduction method: they were contrasted with each other. This in turn generated the synthesis.

Results:  The results highlight the hemodynamic monitoring, the application of the Glasgow coma scale, and the update of a care package as part of the nursing process. Furthermore, the results also highlight the need to develop nursing diagnoses and interventions.

Conclusion:  There is a gap regarding the formulation of nursing diagnoses and interventions linked to the nursing process, as well as the description of the ideal parameters to be checked when monitoring patients.

Keywords: Craniocerebral-Trauma; Critical-Care; Inpatients; Nursing-Care; Nursing-Process