Abstract

The aim was to analyze the nurses' coping in the treatment of congenital heart disease. This is an exploratory-descriptive literature study of qualitative origin, carried out in an electronic database of Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Database in Nursing (BDENF) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) with a time frame of the last five years in Portuguese and English. A sample of 7 studies was obtained, all published in nursing journals, among the findings was the fundamental role of nursing action in the process of congenital heart disease. It is concluded that a newborn, admitted to an Intensive Care Unit, due to congenital heart disease, is predisposed to several other problems, causing some risks, requiring nursing care aimed at possible diagnoses that are affected.

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