Atuação de enfermagem junto ao paciente com transtornos mentais: uma visão integrativa.

Abstract

This research it is an integrative review, which aims to identify the found material evidence of nursing practice with patients with mental disorders, considering that mental illness still suffers marginalization nowadays, especially in health institutions. The psychiatric reform in Brazil began in the second half of the 70s, and brought changes that affected the entire service network in mental health. The nurse is influential before and after the reform context, their work in the mental health area currently consists in their activities in general and psychiatric hospitals, at the Psychosocial Care Centers (Centros de AtençãoPsicossocial – CAPS) and direct assistance to the community through the Family Health Strategy (FHS). It has performed an integrative literature review based on article withdrawals published between 2010 and 2014 through the guiding question of the study, article searches were conducted according to the inclusion criteria, in databases of Latin American Literature in Health Sciences (Literatura Latino-americanaemCiências da Saúde - LILACS) followed by Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO). were found in all 1214 articles, 1205 being excluded, either because they are not within the stipulated dates, being a foreign language, for do not match with the topic discussed or duplicity, the end of the process we used nine articles, the information obtained in this research was selected by established and standardized instruments. It was observed that even nurses have different areas to work in mental health, with no guarantee that they will have the assistance provided, due to lack of knowledge of the subject and the lack of preparation since their graduation. Another problem is that there is a protocol for nursing performance in mental health care, however there is concern about improvements in the assistance provided, and better qualifications to operate in the field.