Background: Aphasia is a language disorder that entails impaired ability to speak, read, understand speech, and write. People who are afflicted with aphasia have difficulty understanding and express themselves, which makes it difficult for information to be transferred between the nurses and the patients. This makes demand that the nurse has knowledge and be able to adapt communication with people with aphasia at the individual level.

Aim: To describe the nurses` experiences of communication with patients suffering from aphasia.

Method: This study is a literature study based on analysis of eleven articles with qualitative design.

Results: The result included two main themes and five subthemes that described nurses' experiences of communication with patients with aphasia. Nurses experienced that it was important to make the communication possible by identifying communication, to adapt the communication and to motivate to communicate. The nurses also experienced working in resistance depending on the time deficient and the competence deficient.

Conclusion: This literature study reveals time and competence are the most important factors that can maintain optimal communication between the nurse and the patient with aphasia. Knowledge of communication at aphasia is needful for the nurse be able to perform safe care.