Nursing performance in emotional care for women attacks with breast cancer and their families

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Objective: to describe the contribution of the nursing in the emotional assistance for carrying women with breast cancer. Methods: this is about a literature review in virtual environment based on articles and manuals. Files were selected in agreement with the title, publications in nine years past for being read in full. The articles that didn't present relationship with the theme were excluded and we obtained a total of 18 articles that approached the proposed subject. An interpretative reading was accomplished for the analysis of the pertinent information to the central theme of this study. After each stage selection and analysis, the results have been elaborated by studies related to breast’s cancer characteristics, the patients suffering, the confrontation, and the nursing assistance. Results: the clients are such problem health have to deal with fear, anxiety, uncertainties, anguish, guilty and the feeling loss of womanliness. The nursing fits to participate of all the stages, from prevention to the end of its treatment. Conclusion: nursing care must se humanized to attend the clients needs completely, not only concerned with the procedures, but also, with the clients well-being. Descriptors: breast neoplasms; nursing; assistance; women's health.