Nursing evidence-based practice guidelines for self-care: oral hygiene in ICU - Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

The present study aims to review evidence-based nursing guidelines that will help intensive care nurses in identifying nursing care diagnoses and prescriptions to achieve self-care outcomes: oral hygiene within 7 days. Descriptive method was performed through a systematic literature review and based on secondary works published from 2011 to 2018. The survey was conducted in a virtual environment at the Virtual Health Library (VHL), in the electronic databases: Medline, Bdenf, Scielo and Lilacs. The articles identified in the search should meet the inclusion criteria: Portuguese and English, have been published from 2011 to 2018 and have as their main theme oral hygiene in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). We selected 10 articles that collaborated with the problem solving and research. Finally, it was concluded that oral hygiene has great relevance in the context of basic nursing care and that its practice should be inserted in the daily context of nursing care to all patients. Because there was a significant reduction in the incidence of VAP in patients who maintained regular oral hygiene with brushing associated with 0,12% chlorhexidine.