Background:

since the appearance of COVID-19, family nurses have played a central role in supporting families. However, the themes published in this scope, are unknown.

Objectives:

to identify and analyze publications related to family nursing during the emergence of SARS-Cov2 and the onset of the pandemic.

Methodology:

integrative review, performed in the Virtual Health Library, Pubmed, Ebsco Scielo, Lilacs, IBESC and Google Scholar. It included theoretical and empirical literature, published between January 2020 and January 2021, in English and Portuguese. Data were processed by the IRAMUTEQ software and similarity analysis was performed.

Results:

8 articles were selected. The themes focused on the publications according to the co-occurrence tree were: 1- change in the practice and teaching of family nursing during COVID-19; 2- the needs of nurses themselves in the face of COVID-19; 3- the strategies used by family nurses. These results corroborate that the pandemic had a significant impact on practice, teaching, research and scientific publications.

Conclusion:

the knowledge of family nurses allows them to assess and intervene in families that need support, educate nurses to provide quality family nursing care and conduct research on their intervention.