Objective:: To map the nursing care recommended for adult patients undergoing chest drainage.
Method:: Scoping review. Included studies in Portuguese, English and Spanish, with no time frame, which answered the research question: what nursing care is indicated for adult patients with chest drainage admitted to intensive care? Selection in the MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase/Elsevier, Web of Science/Clarivate, Scopus/Elsevier, CINAHL/Ebsco and LILACS/BVS databases.