The aim of the study is to gain an understanding regarding the nurse’s role in providing the palliative care for the cancer patients. Palliative care means a holistic care providence in alleviating the suffering which is being focused on a patient with incurable and life-threatening disease in order to support in different dimensions.

Literature review method is used to get answers for the research questions and figured out the specific role of nurses in providing palliative care for the cancer patients and the eventual challenges as a counter part of palliative nursing. Ten articles were used for the study and collected data is analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The result identified are represented under patient centered care and challenges which meets the integral role of nurse as a palliative nursing care provider besides the challenges to be faced in palliative nursing care for cancer patients. Thus, the study encounters the valid answers for the research questions