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Objective: to know the scientific evidence about the role of nurses in palliative cancer care. Method: this is a bibliographic study, descriptive, literature review type, with searches performed in the virtual libraries Scientific Electronic Library Online and Virtual Library in Health. The sample consisted of 17 articles, and the data were processed in the SOFTWARE IRAMUTEQ® and analyzed descriptively by the Reinert method. Results: six classes were organized and, of these, four categories emerged: Class 1 -Emotional support of professionals and family in relation to palliative cancer care; Classes 2, 5 and 6 -Evidence-based practices promoting interventions to nursing care; Class 3 -The importance of coping strategies for reconfiguration of care for quality in nursing care; Class 4 -Process of knowledge about palliative care and deficits in care. Conclusion: it was identified that it is fundamental the role of nurses in the execution of palliative care, whether in the initial or terminal phase of cancer patients, providing less aggressive interventions and better quality of life.

Objetives: to verify in the literature, the situations of health workers in coping with the covid-19 pandemic. Methodology: This is a bibliographic, descriptive, integrative literature review type analysis, an Evidence Based Practice instrument. A bibliographic survey was carried out in digital databases, according to pre-established methodological rigor; information was collected in November 2020, in the SCIELO databases where 10 articles were used according to inclusion criteria. Results: the findings refer to the health of health professionals in a broad way, analyzing not only their physical well-being but also the biopsychosocial well-being. Conclusion: It becomes evident the significant challenges experienced by health professionals, which reflects not only in their lives but in the lives of millions of others, because it is through these professionals that there is help in facing the current epidemiological situation. This is a clear reminder of the neglect and little importance of the biopsychosocial well-being of this employer.