ROLE OF THE NURSE IN PATIENT CARE TRANSITION: SCOPING REVIEW

Abstract

Objective: To map the literature on the role of nurses in the transition of patient care from the
hospital level to primary health care. Method: Scope review according to the Joanna Briggs
Institute. Search in sources: PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Literature, Science Direct, Web of Science, Scopus, Database of Nursing and Latin American
and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. Search in gray literature: Brazilian Digital
Library Theses and Dissertations and Google Scholar. Results: 5,435 studies were retrieved.
Excluded: 1,291 duplicates, 4,105 after reading the title and abstract. 39 were selected for full
reading and 26 made up the final sample. Studies in Portuguese predominated in the area of
??nursing, coming from Brazilian public universities, with greater production in 2021. The role
of the nurse was to coordinate care, identify the needs of the patient and family, discharge
instructions and carry out counter-referral.