Psychiatric nursing practices in the paradigmatic transition: a study of theses and dissertations

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the practice of psychiatric nursing in paradigmatic transition in the mental health area and discuss the possible changes of the psychiatric nursing practices. Method: the research carried out at the bank of theses and dissertations of the CAPES in May 2012, using the expression psychiatric nursing. Results: this study obtained 288 products. The analysis showed that the core of meaning: tools for nursing care, the nurse's role, hospital practices, hospital-centric mode transition to the psychosocial and health network. These were reassembled in two thematic categories: hospital-central practices and psychosocial practices. After 2001, there has been greater concentration of paradigmatic transition studies, however, the practice of psychiatric nursing, which had its genesis in the hospital, continue to exist in psychosocial services with the necessary transformations of the current paradigm.