Introduction:

Comfort is sensitive to nursing care and results from satisfying the need for relief, tranquility, and transcendence in the physical, psycho-spiritual, social, and environmental dimensions. Objective: To map the available scientific evidence on nursing care that promotes comfort in palliative care. Inclusion criteria: Primary studies that report nursing care in promoting comfort to people in palliative care. Methods: Scoping review protocol according to the Joanna Briggs Institute recommendations. Published and unpublished studies, with a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods approach. Complete search in MEDLINE Complete, CINAHL Complete, Scopus, Web of Science, RCAAP and OpenGrey databases. Screening of studies performed by title and abstract, with subsequent analysis of the full text by two independent reviewers who will extract and categorize data according to content. Research protocol registered in the Open Science Framework (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/CN258). Conclusions: It is hoped to contribute to the clarification of concepts and to the definition of a theoretical framework that underpins the nursing intervention in the promotion of comfort to the person in a palliative situation.

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