Abstract
Identify the benefits of nursing care to be exercised with spirituality / religiosity. The thematic was approached through an integrative review of the literature. To better explain the results, categories were constructed, being: Distinction between spirituality / religiosity; Benefits care of spirituality / religiosity play in the life of the patient; Difficulties of nurses to exercise care with spirituality / religiosity to the patient; Nursing care with spirituality / religiosity in the midst of the spiritual suffering of the patient without therapeutic possibility. The study concludes with the premise that faith in God is the support consecrated by spirituality since it favors an excellent personal domain in the face of the circumstance of cancer in terminal phase.