Abstract
Objective: To identify nursing performance strategies to promote breastfeeding. Methods: This is an integrative literature review, identifying articles in the Virtual Library Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Virtual Health Library (VHL) and PubMed databases. The search was carried out from April to October 2020, with 4.302 documents being found, and of these, 75 studies were selected to be analyzed, among which, 66 articles did not meet the inclusion criteria and were excluded. The analysis of the material was made available through the study of Bardin, through content analysis. Results: In this study, 9 articles were used, reporting that the nursing perfomance strategies to promote breastfeeding were used based on the guidelines provided for the promotion of breastfeeding, permanent education for professionals and family insertion in the breastfeeding period. Final considerations: The performance of professionals working in the pregnancy-puerperal period is indeclinable, becoming relevant in promoting, encouraging and supporting breastfeeding, producing positive impacts on the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding.