Background: Continuing education is a dynamic process of teaching and learning, active and permanent intended to update and improve the training of
people. This study aimed to review the existing literature about the importance of continuing education in the intensive care unit-ICU, an also
to reveal the year of published articles, authors and states in which they were published.
Online) and BDENF (the Database of Nursing), with the descriptors Decs “continuous education”, “intensive care unit”, “nursing”, “permanent education.”
It established as criteria of inclusion the articles published nationwide in the period from 2000 to 2011, with a sample collection of 21 articles. :
2006 (19.04%), and the majority of researchers (46.66%) with a PhD in nursing. It also revealed that the largest number of articles published about the
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that the state of São Paulo is a reference to the area in terms of academic life and health. . Additionally, it was found that the intensive care unit is a scenario
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