Relationship Between Nursing and Dentistry in Patient Care in Intensive Care Unit: An Integrative Literature Review

Abstract

Objective: To highlight what has been published in the scientific literature on care strategies and protocols used by the nursing team regarding oral health and how dentistry can contribute, guide and improve the care process for inpatients.
 Methodology: Integrative literature review performed with original articles, available in full, indexed between 2015 and 2020 in the PubMed, LILACS, SciELO and Google academic databases.
 Results: Eight studies were selected between 2015 and 2020 through critical synthesis that deal with oral care in hospitalized patients.
 Final considerations: The relationship between dentistry and nursing with oral care and the inclusion of the Dental Surgeon in the health team, contribute to the prevention and treatment of oral conditions, leading to the synergy of the health team, reducing risk factors, enabling a healing process and reducing possible nosocomial infections in the hospital environment.