Abstract

TAVARES, Cláudia Mara de Melo et al. Specific skills of mental health nurses in undergraduate nursing teaching. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2016, n.spe4, pp.25-32. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0137.

BACKGROUND: In the organisation and development of his/her teaching syllabus, the psychiatry and mental health nursing teacher believes hat he is training competent nurses for care provision in the mental health area in accordance with the principles of the Brazilian psychiatric reform. No consensus was reached and no regulations are to be found in Brazil about the mental health nurse specialist skills. AIM: To describe the sociodemographic profile of teachers in the area of mental health nursing in ​​public higher education institutions in Rio de Janeiro; to discuss the specific skills of the mental health nurse emphasized by teachers in undergraduate courses in nursing. METHODS: This was a qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study developed by means of direct interviews with 14 teachers who work in public higher education institutions in the State of Rio de Janeiro. We adopted the thematic content analysis technique to analyse and interpret the results. RESULTS: The teachers referred the following specific skills in the mental health nurse: subject’s clinic; active listening; therapeutic communication; team work; self-knowledge; psychiatric reform; family attention; systematization of nursing care; innovation; capacity of managing difference and stigmas and development of own personality. However, teachers make clear that education is not skill-oriented. CONCLUSION: Mental health education in the educational institutions where the research took place is not skill oriented. There is partial consensus regarding training in behalf of the subject clinic and the psychiatric reform.

Keywords : Psychiatric nursing; Professional competence; Nursing education.

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