The nurse’s praxis in the family health program in attention to mental health care

Abstract

Study carried out with the objective to
describe the conceptions of the nurses who act in
the “Family Health Program”PSF of the city of
Cabedelo about the process of nursing work, the
characteristics of this process, and, to identifythe
aspects of the process health-illness that these
nurses approach with greater and minor frequency
in daily of the practical professional. It had theoretical
referencial in the models of assistance to health
introduced in Brazil, in the strategy of the PSFand in
the process of work in Mental Health, the
metodological referencial had inspiration the
Materialism Historical and Dialectical. The empirical
material was collected by means of interviews and
analyzed through the technique of analysis of the
speech. The analysis allowed to identify the
knowledge and the practical ones that guide the
investigated work, assisting the citizens of the inquiry
to develop actions of nursing capable to subsidize
and approach with the overcoming of the disclosed
contradictions, to accumulate the construction of
praxis,required in the present time that answers to
the necessities of attend,on the mental health, in the 

direction of the social inclusion of the person with
insanity. The PSF is a strategy for the
accomplishment of the only System of Health -SUS
and such as a tool that can be used in the direction
of gathering the actions of mental health approaching
this specific area with SUS and allowing the advance
of the movement for the Psychiatric Reform in the
perspective of one of its guidelines, the
desinstitutionalization of the illness and the person
with insanity.