Abstract

LIMA, Deivson Wendell da Costa et al. Humanization in mental health care: nurses' understandings. SMAD, Rev. Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog. (Ed. port.) [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.1, pp. 58-65. ISSN 1806-6976.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.smad.2021.164401.

OBJECTIVE: to know nurses' understandings of humanization in mental health care. METHOD: it is an exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, carried out with 12 nurses in a psychiatric hospital in the interior of the Northeast, Brazil, from September 2014 to March 2015. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were used, non-participant observation and observation of Nursing records, analyzing them from Bardin's Content Analysis. RESULTS: four categories emerged: welcoming, autonomy, protagonism and co-responsibility. Humanized care appears linked to the asylum model, culminating in practices focused on the use of medication, disjointed actions and without patient participation in the treatment. The perception of humanization is of difficulty in caring for people in psychic crises, which makes the production of comprehensive care unfeasible. CONCLUSION:the study contributes to the reflection of nursing care in mental health where it is necessary to modify the relationships that biomedical discourse maintains with those who seek a humanized practice.

Keywords : Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing Care; Mental Health; Humanization of Assistance.

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