Amorim, Ingrid GurgelMorais, Rafael Otávio Bezerra deAmorim, Érico GurgelMedeiros Neta, Olívia Morais deBeserra, Patrícia Josefa FernandesSousa, Andreza dos SantosMendonça, Ana Elza Oliveira de2020-12-152020-12-152020-08-02AMORIM, Ingrid Gurgel; MORAIS, Rafael Otávio Bezerra de; AMORIM, Érico Gurgel; MEDEIROS NETA, Olívia Morais de; BESERRA, Patrícia Josefa Fernandes; SOUSA, Andreza dos Santos; MENDONÇA, Ana Elza Oliveira de. Caracterização das teses e dissertações brasileiras na área de Enfermagem em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva. Research, Society And Development, [s. l.], v. 9, n. 8, p. 1-20, 2 ago. 2020. Research, Society and Development. Disponível em: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/6626. Acesso em: 21 set. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i8.66262525-3409https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/30998The objective was to characterize the production of brazilian theses and dissertations in the area of ​​nursing in the Intensive Care Unit. Bibliometric review study conducted in October 2018 on the Sucupira Platform. The descriptor “Intensive Care Units” was used and included theses and dissertations published from 2013 to 2017. The data were tabulated in Microsoft Excel® and the abstracts processed in the Interface of R pour les Analyzes Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaire (IRAMUTEQ). The study consisted of 181 productions, of which 71.8% were dissertations, 20.6% theses and 7.6% monographs of professional master's degrees. The regions of Brazil with the highest percentages were Southeast (44.0%) and South (23.2%). The main areas of concentration in the ICU are: "Nursing in the Brazilian social context" and "Health and Nursing". In the IRAMUTEQ the general corpus consisted of 181 dissertations and theses, 1714 text segments and 60,838 occurrences. Of these segments, 1584 (92.42%) were used, representing a significant corpus. The word cloud highlighted the ICU relationship with the "nursing team", "safety" and "patient safety" and the different subjects of care: "neonatal", "child" and "adult". The ICU is a rich and complex scenario for carrying out research and these productions contribute to the improvement of nursing care and patients' prognosisAttribution 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/Pesquisa em enfermagemUnidades de Terapia IntensivaEnfermagemNursing researchIntensive Care UnitsNursingarticle10.33448/rsd-v9i8.6626