Introduction:

The current challenge of nursing professionals is to evaluate the person not as an object but as a subject of care. Nursing care during labor and delivery requires special considerations for women, involving sensitivity and creativity in the act of caring.

Objective:

To identify the theoretical and methodological references that support humanized care for women during labor and delivery.

Methods:

Systematic bibliographic review for developing a reflexive-critical analysis of the content of documents, original and review articles available on the Internet, as well as master's degree theses and doctoral dissertations published between 1992 and 2015 in Spanish, Portuguese and English. The search was made in the database Academic Google, from March to May 2016. The keywords used were cuidados [care];cuidados humanizados [humanized care], trabajode parto y parto [labor and delivery],profesionales de enfermería [ nursing professionals]. After the identification of the pre-selected studies, the titles, summary and key words were read, verifying their relevance with the study.

Conclusions:

The relevance of the humanized care to women during labor and delivery is based on the satisfaction of the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of women.

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