Nursing care for bed bath in patients with COVID-19: an integrative review.

OBJECTIVE

to identify the main nursing care procedures for performing bed bath in patients with COVID-19.

METHOD

an integrative literature review. Five stages were followed for this research: research question elaboration (identification of the problem), search of studies in literature, study assessment, data analysis, and presentation of review. To search for primary studies, the VHL and SciELO databases were selected.

RESULTS

initially, 55 publications were found. After reading and analyzing the abstracts, the sample consisted of 15 studies.

CONCLUSION

patients with the new coronavirus have specific care to perform a bed bath, oral, intimate and skin hygiene. It is important that professionals use adequate personal protective equipment, perform humanized care, continuously observing patients' vital signs to avoid occurrence of adverse events, promoting patient safety.