Assistência de enfermagem ao paciente portador de diabetes mellitus

The present study aims to describe the nursing care provided to patients with diabetes mellitus. This is an integrative review of literature of described nature, The search for the works involved in the research were sought in the following databases: SCIELO, LILACS, BDENF and PUBMED, from the descriptors in health sciences: "Nursing care", "Diabetes mellitus" and "Health promotion". Inclusion criteria were: published between 2011 and 2021, with free access to full texts, articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish, and related to the theme. Exclusion criteria were: duplicate articles, incomplete articles, abstracts, reviews, debates, articles published in proceedings of events and unavailable in full. Planning nursing care requires nurses to know the natural history of the disease in order to guide the preventive and curative dimensions of nursing care to the client. The nurse has an essential role in promoting the health of the patient with diabetes mellitus, requiring a holistic view in order to be able to intervene in this disease process.