NURSE PERCEPTION ABOUT THE ASSISTENCIAL PRACTICE IN MENTAL HEALTH PUBLIC SERVICES

Abstract

The Psychiatric Reform appeared with the intention of disabling the psychiatric hospital progressively and to substitute it for a community services net. The goal was identify the nurses' perception of extra-hospitable services concerning the treatment practice in mental health and the influence of the Psychiatric Reform. Qualitative, descriptive-exploratory researches, carried out with all of the active nurses in public services of attention to the mental health of Caxias do Sul (Psychosocial Attention and Residential Therapeutic Centers). It was verified in the four interviewees' speeches, the transition of a hospital-centered and segregated care to an integral and human care, in which the interdisciplinary team inserted in those services disables that the treatment practice becomes isolated and disjointed, favoring the service to the user of the mental health net. The Psychiatric Reform process is felt and noticed by the professionals by their treatment practices in mental health. Keywords: hospitals psychiatric, nursing, perception, mental health services.