Abstract
Objective: Describe the care provided by the nursing team in the transoperative period for surgical patients. Methods: This article presents a bibliographic study, descriptively, in which the integrative literature review method is used. It is worth emphasizing that the basis of this study was based on the guiding question: what is the importance of nursing in assisting surgical patients during the transoperative period? Results: The selection process of scientific articles began with the identification of 42 publications, after careful reading of the titles and abstracts, 10 articles remained analyzed by full-text reading and included in this integrative review, considering their level of evidence, having IV and V as the categories identified in the selected articles. Final considerations: Nursing care in the surgical transoperative period is of great importance to reduce damage/adverse events that may compromise the patient's health, with the role of coordinating staff and operating rooms, synchronizing activities and circulation during the process surgical, controlling materials and medicines, making the surgical environment provide the necessary well-being and safety for the patient.