Dallagnol, PaulaPavan, Ana Júlia2025-02-252024https://repositorio.uricer.edu.br/handle/35974/742Introduction: Brain death is defined as permanent, irreversible and true death, resulting in the cessation of all brain functions and even if there is hemodynamic functionality, the prognosis is poor. Upon confirmation of death, organs and tissues can be submitted for donation, which is understood as an act in which the individual expresses the desire to donate, which can occur with the individual alive or after death. In 2023, from January to June, Brazil had 1,900 donors, having the highest rate in the last ten years in the same period, but according to the notification bulletin from the Brazilian Association of Organ Transplantation (ABTO), there were 6,793 potential donors and only 1,930 were selected. Assuming that fatalities and accidents occur frequently, many healthy organs could be removed and allocated to a new organ receiver, as we live in the reality that people die all the time and others wait a lot of years for an organ to save their lives. General objective: To understand the scope of the nurse's role in the process of organ donation in cases of brain death. Specific objectives: Identify barriers in the nurse's work process for effective organ donation; List the potential that nurses offer in the process of organ donation, characterizing their professional activity. Methodology: This is a qualitative research, whose information will be obtained through an integrative literature review. For its development, the PICo strategy, Role of the nurse (P- Population) will be used; Organ donation in brain death (I- Intervention); Hospital/ICU (Co-Context) concluding the origin of the guiding question: What is the role/performance of the nurse in the process of organ donation in brain death. The search will be carried out on the VHL, PUBMED, Google Scholar platforms in the period from 2014 to 2024. Full articles will be included in any language and texts that are not articles, review articles and repeated articles will be excluded, and which do not answer the research question, with incomplete text and paid articles, resulting in a total of six articles. Discussion: From the search for articles that met the methodology used to select the studies, the results were texts that: Emphasize the resistance in public and professional trust towards donations and the transplant system, in addition to the insecurity of knowledge about the process and the technical and ethical aspects of donation; Ideas contrary to the diagnosis of BD by family members can lead to difficulty in informing the family about the death of their loved one and in digesting the reactions that relatives may have; The definition of care for patients with BD is understood by nurses as something delicate, difficult to execute, which requires comprehensive attention and which requires organizational care practices to maintain hemodynamic stability and the pathophysiological changes of the patient with BD as a potential donor; The implementation of a new organizational model that highlights nurses as a crucial professional for the acquisition of organs and tissues; Nurses report limited infrastructure and intensity of care, in addition to having many demands in the sector that interfere with the care provided to potential donor patients; The support and externalization of specific knowledge about the procedures in the context of organ harvesting can encourage the family member to decide and accept the donation, this dialogue being one of the weaknesses faced by nursing professionals. Conclusion: It can conclude that the previous years suffered from constructive and growing work, emphasizing again the need for detailed attention in relation to the conduct that encompasses all individuals in this process; patient, family and nurses.pt-BREnfermagemMorte encefálicaTransplanteObtenção de tecidos e órgãosTrabalho de Conclusão de Curso