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Background: As a nurse, meeting relatives of deceased patients is a complex task. Possessing the knowledge required to be able to deal with everyone in an individualized way is a prerequisite for being able to provide good care to grieving relatives. Relatives express multiple needs and wishes after a death. Among other things the need for a person–centered approach with straightforward and clear communication. Eriksson's theory of care science is the basis for this work, where caring, playing, teaching and compassion is described as a strength in a nurse profession. It also brings up how the nurse practice the rules, laws and regulatory documents. Aim: Is to describe nurses' experiences of treatment towards relatives at the patient's death. Method: The work is done with a general literature review where tencare science articles have been analyzed, of which two were quantitative and seven were qualitative and one were mixed method. Results: The analysis led us to four themes, where the themes were to be present in difficult times, to communicate with relatives, to make room for grief and to be inadequate. Conclusion: As nurses, facing death in their daily work contributes to emotional expressions and at the same time responding to sad, desperate and angry relatives makes the work difficult and emotionally demanding, then it is important that the nurse has the conditions to provide good care.