The aim of this study is describe the general hospital psychiatric unit functioning regarding their empirical and practical aspects. Getting together to care many inpatients with several mental disorders can be a hard task. The pharmacology is empirical and palliative despite great efforts and development neuroscientific in last years. Try to discuss the conducts and management of the care with this inpatients can brig the light to the know how to proceed with them, mainly for who is beginning the psychiatric practice like students and residents.
General hospital psychiatric unit; psychiatry; health care evaluation mechanisms