Nurses in mental health outpatient services

Abstract

This study emerged from the preocupation to evalute the learning needs of psychiatric nurses working in an ambulatory of Mental Health. We verified the type of education they had, the actions they performed and the difficulties and facilities they found in the development of nursing interventions. It was also examined whether these actions are in conformity to the ones preconized by the literature or not. The data analysis showed that the majority of the actions are performed by nurses in distinct manners in 6 ambulatories. We percieved, in some events, the "function deveation " in nursing activities of nurse and the nursing team.