Travel back and forth: Reflections on prison psychiatric nursing | Viajar e para trás: Reflexões sobre a prisão de enfermagem psiquiátrica

Abstract

Objective: To describe the difficulties in applying the Therapeutic Relationship in the care of patients suffering from mental illness, admitted to a Prison Psychiatric Center. Method: Narrativity as an instrument to resize and reflect on nursing care practice, from the perspective of the relationship of help in the care of patients with mental illness. Results: The elaboration of this first-person account has contributed to show that the nursing professionals in Penitentiary Psychiatric Centers work to achieve visibility and avoid being institutionalized. Conclusions: Through the narrative the initial purpose of describing the different difficulties in the application of the Therapeutic Relationship in the care of patients suffering from mental illness, admitted to a Prison Psychiatric Center, has been reached. The narrative constitutes a pertinent instrument for the reflection on the practice of the nursing specialist in Mental Health.

Keywords

• Enfermería de salud mental
• relación terapéutica
• psiquiatría penitenciaria
• institucionalización