Objective: To map nursing interventions that contribute to preventing posttraumatic stress in people hospitalized in the context of intensive care.
Design: Scoping review according to the Joanne Briggs Institute methodology.
Methods: The search was carried out in the databases PubMed, CINAHL via EBSCO, Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews, COCHRANE Database of Systematic Reviews, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Dans Easy, and Dart-Europe.
Introduction: It is important to understand the concept of comfort as a whole to build an assistance intervention plan that meets the person's needs. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and assess the person's sleep by considering the surrounding environment, to provide a comfortable environment that is quiet and provides privacy, especially in contexts of difficult management of environmental factors in the approach to the person in critical condition.
Objectives: The aims of this study were to map the nursing interventions that promote sleep-promoting environmental comfort in critically ill people and identify the instruments to assess sleep in critically ill people.