International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) [Vol-7, Issue-9, Sep- 2020] https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.79.51 ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) www.ijaers.com Page | 436 Perception of the Nursing Team in Relation to Oncologic Patient Assistance in Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit Caliupe Fernandes de Jesus 1 , Fernando Augusto Pinheiro 2 , Angela Antunes de Morais Lima 3 , Jessica dos Santos Souza 4 1 Nurse. Graduated by Cacoal Biomedical Sciences College– FACIMED(2018) and post graduate student in Intensive Care by the Multi- professional Health Residency Program at Hospital Regional de Cacoal[Cacoal Regional Hospital]. 2 Nurse. Graduated by Cacoal Biomedical Sciences College – FACIMED (2008). Specialist in Adult and Pediatric Intensive Care by Cacoal Biomedical Sciences College (FACIMED, 2017). Specialist in Urgency and Emergency with emphasis on ICU by GrupoAthenas, (2011). Tutor in the Multi-professional Health Residency Program at the Regional Hospital of Cacoal. Lecturer at the Pimenta Bueno College – FAP. 3 Nurse. Graduated by Mato Grosso do Sul Federal University (UFMS, 1999) and specialist in Family Health from the University of Rondônia (UNIR, 2002) and in health surveillance by SírioLibanês (2017). Tutor in the Multi-professional Health Residency Program at the Regional Hospital of Cacoal. 4 Nurse. Graduated by São Paulo College – FSP (2018). Intensive Care Resident – ICU by the Health’s Secretary of the State of Rondônia. SESAU/RO under intermediate of the Multi-professional Residence Committee – COREMU in the Cacoal Regional Hospital Complex – COHREC. Abstract— Introduction: The palliative care in general should retake the possibility of perceiving death as a natural and expected process, facing a life threatening disease. Even if there are efforts aiming toward Palliative Care in the ICU, there are still difficulties that hinder such practice, by the fact that it demands individual activities toward the patient. Objectives: describe the perception of the nursing team in relation to oncologic patient assistance in palliative care admitted to the ICU. Methodology: Descriptive, transversal, quali-quantitative study, with field data collection, in which 29 nursing professionals were interviewed through an individual questionnaire, made by the researcher herself in a hospital from Rondônia countryside in 2020. Results: it was possible to prove that the Palliative Care theme is still not widespread and lot of professionals don’t know its principles, such reality hinders the care in relation to these oncologic patients admitted to the ICU. Conclusions: It stands out, then, that there is a need for the nursing team to be ready to attend oncologic patients, just as it becomes evident the team’s interest over the presented theme. To offer continuing education about intensive care is essential, just as providing an emotional support to these professionals who deal everyday with pain, suffering and death. Keywords— Oncologic Care. Nursing. Intensive Care Unit. I. INTRODUCTION The concept of Palliative Care (PC) was initially developed in the 50’s by the English doctor Cicely Saunders, pioneer of the modern PC movement, on of her lines that circulates to the present day is: “Suffering is only intolerable when nobody cares.” (Health, 2014). In the 90’s the World Health Organization (WHO) first defined the Palliative Care as total and active care towards terminally ill patients, where their social, spiritual, psychic and pain relief issues are put first(Forte et al., 2018). Palliative Care are based in principles, according to the World Health Organization they are; to provide relief from the pain and other unpleasant symptoms, to assure life and consider death as a normal process of life, do not accelerate or postpone death, integrate psychological and spiritual aspects in the patient care, offer a supporting system that enables the patient to live as actively as possible until the moment of death, assist family members through the patient's disease and also through mourning, grant a multi-professional approach to focus the needs of the patients and their relatives, including support through