Introdution:

The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is preventable and treatable with respiratory manifestations and airflow limitation, in which intervention can contribute to improve functional and emotional capacity, knowledge, to promote self-care, adherence to the therapeutic regimen and healthy behaviors.

General Objective:

To synthesize scientific evidence of the impact of the Rehabilitation Nurses (RN) intervention on the person with COPD.

Methods:

It was established as a research question "What is the impact of the Rehabilitation Nurse intervention on a person with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?" adopting The Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for systematic review. The inclusion criteria were defined, and it was defined a Boolean research in the EBSCOhost database.

Results:

We included 6 articles, which mainly portrayed the educational and support component of the RN. The RN has a positive impact on the life of the person with COPD, with better results in terms of symptomatic control/dyspnea, on the reduction of admissions and length of hospitalization, increased awareness of disease control and quality of life. It has an impact on improving daily life activities and reducing costs.

Conclusions:

The studies evidenced many ways of performance of the RN with positive impact. There is little research on the results of interventions.

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