Abstract

SANTOS, Anna Cristina Cardoso Fontes dos. Psychiatric nursing care reference: a reflective process of a group of nurses . Esc. Anna Nery [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.1, pp. 51-55. ISSN 1414-8145.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1414-81452009000100008.

Qualitative research that had as purpose to construct in conjunction with six head nurses, of a public Psychiatric Institution located in Rio de Janeiro, a theoretical-philosophical reference to be implemented by themselves, in the development of the psychiatric patients' care process. It was made a reflexion process on group dynamics looking for self-knowledge and maturity. This occurred during the development of master thesis ⁽¹⁾, advised by Dr. Eloita Pereira Neves. It was used concepts of Humanistic ⁽²⁾ and Bureaucratic Care Theories ⁽³⁾, directives of the Psychiatric Reform and Politics of Mental Health. The data collected were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed according to the content analysis ⁽⁴⁾. The results pointed to categories of Conceptions related to: Human Being; Professional Nursing Care; Care of the Professional Caregiver; Caring as an Educational Process; Institutional and Carelessness. These allowed formulating a reference proposal for the Nursing Care practice in institutionalized psychiatric patients of long permanence.

Keywords : Beware of Nursing; Education; Psychiatric Nursing; Qualitative Research.