[Nursing technologies to promote breastfteeding: integrative literature review]

This paper aims to accomplish an integrative literature review on the types of technologies that nurses have developed or that they could use to promote breasfeeding. The research was carried out in October 2009 using the descriptors: breasfeeding, nursing and technology, in the CINAHL, Scopus, PubMed and LILACS databases. 127 references were founda 10 of them participated in the analysis since they fit the study selection criteria. It was verified that most (6 - 60%) of the studies were found in Pubmed in English (8 - 80%) and didn't mention the study type (4 - 40%). Thirteen types of care technologies were identified classified as hard (8 - 61.5%) and soft (5 - 38.5%); the main target audience was formed by children's mothers (9 - 90%), and the video/footage was the most used technology (4 - 40%). The use of soft and sof-hard technologies should be stimulated,for they are considered practical and easy to be developed and applied.