Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-04-30T12:32:37Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Railda Aparecida Barbosa Barreto - 2018.pdf: 3263329 bytes, checksum: 0f13b79f73e0d36b8ba0e1852746f311 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-04-30T12:34:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Railda Aparecida Barbosa Barreto - 2018.pdf: 3263329 bytes, checksum: 0f13b79f73e0d36b8ba0e1852746f311 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-30T12:34:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Railda Aparecida Barbosa Barreto - 2018.pdf: 3263329 bytes, checksum: 0f13b79f73e0d36b8ba0e1852746f311 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-29 / This dissertation seeks to analyze, from the historical genealogical perspective of Michel Foucault, the discourses and practices of psychiatry applied to the family of people who undergo the psychiatry in Goiás. In order to reach our objective, we stablished a historical cut from the year of 1954, with the construction of the Psychiatric Hospital Adauto Botelho - Goiânia, until 1995, when, through the psychiatric reform movement, that hospital was closed. From the research sources, such as medical journals, journals, psychiatric records, dissertations and thesis, we highlight the emergence of two ruptures that indicate the place occupied by the family in the context of hospitalization and psychiatric de-hospitalization. In the first rupture, we mapped out that psychiatry assumed the custody of its subjected personand the family, when it appeared, it was to answer some of the functions made from psychiatry. In the second rupture, we show that, under the initiatives of psychiatric reform, the family was considered strategic in psychiatric custody in Goiás. However, it was up to psychiatry to use varied tactics to trigger the family and make it responsible in the treatment of the person subjected to the psychiatric power, especially as an active participant in the de-hospitalization policy. In both ruptures, we discussed the formation of statements acredited as truths about the family and the construction of alliances of the family and of psychiatry with other knowledge, to establish their speeches, etc. We believe that there is no single way of telling history and others will be necessary, but we hope that this work can contribute to the debate about the place attributed to the family in psychiatric care in Goiás. In addition, we want to contribute to preserve the documentary collection in the history of mental health in the State of Goiás, making it accessible to other people interested in this field of research. / O objetivo desta dissertação foi o de analisar, partindo da perspectiva histórica genealógica de Michel Foucault, os discursos e práticas da psiquiatria que se dirigiram à família do psiquiatrizado em Goiás. Para o alcance do objetivo tivemos como recorte histórico o ano de 1954, com a construção do Hospital Psiquiátrico Adauto Botelho - Goiânia, até o ano de 1995, quando, através do movimento da reforma psiquiátrica, houve a sua desativação. A partir das fontes pesquisadas, como revistas médicas, jornais, prontuários psiquiátricos, dissertações e teses, destacamos a emergência de duas rupturas que assinalam o lugar ocupado pela família no contexto da hospitalização e da desospitalização psiquiátrica. Na primeira ruptura mapeamos que a psiquiatria assumia a tutela do familiar psiquiatrizado e a família, quando se apresentava, era para responder algumas funções colocadas pela psiquiatria. Na segunda ruptura, evidenciamos que, já sob as iniciativas da reforma psiquiátrica, a família passou a ser considerada estratégica na assistência psiquiátrica em Goiás. No entanto, coube à psiquiatria se utilizar de táticas variadas para acionar a família e torná-la participante ativa na política de desospitalização. Em ambas as rupturas, discutimos sobre a formação de verdades a respeito da família e a construção de alianças da família e da psiquiatria com outros saberes, para firmar seus discursos, etc. Consideramos que não existe uma única maneira de contar história e que outras serão necessárias, porém, esperamos que esta escrita possa contribuir no debate a respeito do lugar atribuído à família na assistência psiquiátrica em Goiás, como também na preservação do acervo documental sobre a história da saúde mental no Estado, tornando-o acessível aos demais interessados na área.

Essa pesquisa qualitativa tomou como objeto de estudo o universo dos moradores e moradoras ararenses do hospital psiquiátrico Antonio Luis Sayão, sob gestão estadual, localizado na cidade de Araras, no interior do Estado de São Paulo. A finalidade é indicar mecanismos para o início de processos de desinstitucionalização dessas pessoas. Os objetivos foram: a) identificar, por meio do Questionário do Censo Psicossocial dos Moradores em Hospitais Psiquiátricos do Estado de São Paulo, os moradores e moradoras nascidas no município e que vivem no interior do hospital; b) investigar, por meio dos dados objetivos e os da impressão dos pesquisadores, quem são, seus recursos e possibilidades; c) propor, a partir da análise dos dados, estratégias de desinstitucionalização, para operacionalização pelo gestor local, se for oportuno. São sujeitos do estudo seis mulheres e cinco homens, cujo tempo de permanência no hospital variou de dez a trinta anos e preenchem os critérios: a) ser natural de Araras; b) familiar ter residência em Araras; c) possuir curador ou procurador e d) estar sob internação involuntária. A pergunta que orientou o estudo foi: Por quê pessoas que possuem renda e familiares no município, sob internação involuntária, permanecem institucionalizadas? As bases teóricas de referência sustentam-se na perspectiva da Desinstitucionalização e da Reforma Psiquiátrica. Os dados empíricos foram obtidos por meio dos Questionários preenchidos por pesquisadores do Censo Psicossocial, após autorização da Área Temática de Saúde Mental do Grupo Técnico de Ações Estratégicas da Secretaria de Estado de Saúde. Os resultados demonstram que os moradores e moradoras vivem amplo processo de institucionalização, despertecimento e apartamento social. As vidas são apropriadas pelo cotidiano e lógica asilar, os direitos fundamentais de cidadania são permanentemente violados: entre os que têm necessidades específicas, como deficiência física ou mental e entre os que têm e os que não têm diagnóstico psiquiátrico. Todos estão sob curatela e recebem renda administrada por terceiros, sem acesso ao dinheiro. Como resposta às necessidades, possibilidades e recursos dessas pessoas, esse estudo recomenda a execução imediata das Diretrizes das Políticas Públicas de Saúde Mental do Ministério da Saúde, das recomendações do Censo Psicossocial no Estado de São Paulo e do Plano Estadual de Saúde 2008-2011 da Secretaria de Saúde de São Paulo e desenha um Projeto de Desinstitucionalização (duas Residências Terapêuticas) para estas pessoas, atendendo suas características e as características do município de Araras. / This qualitative research took as its object of study the universe of Araras residents of the Antonio Luis Sayão psychiatric hospital, under state management, located in the city of Araras in the State of São Paulo. The purpose is to specify mechanisms for the initiation of processes of deinstitutionalization of these people. The objectives were: a) to identify, through the Psychosocial Census Questionnaire of Psychiatric Hospital Residents in the State of São Paulo, the residents born in the city and who live within the hospital; b) to investigate, through objective data and the researchers printing, who they are, their resources and capabilities; c) to propose from the data analysis some strategies of deinstitutionalization, which can be implemented by the local manager, if appropriate. Study subjects are six women and five men, whose time spent in the hospital has ranged from ten to thirty years and meet the following criteria: a) are a native of Araras; b) have a family residence in Araras; c) posses a trustee/proxy and d) is under involuntary admission. The question that guided the study was: Why do people with income and family, under involuntary admission, remain institutionalized? The theoretical bases of reference are maintained in the perspective of Deinstitutionalization and Psychiatric Reform. Empirical data were obtained through questionnaires filled out by Psychosocial Census researchers after authorization by the Secretary of the Ministry of Health\'s Technical Actions Group in the Thematic Area of Mental Health. The results show that the residents live vast institutionalization processes, desperation and social apartment. The lives are suitable for everyday living and logical placement, the fundamental rights of citizenship are constantly violated: between those who have special needs such as physical or mental disabilities and those who have and those who do not have psychiatric diagnoses. All are under the guidance of a trustee and receive income managed by third parties without access to the money. In response to the needs, possibilities and resources of these people, this study recommends the immediate implementation of the Ministry of Healths Public Policy Guidelines for Mental Health, the recommendations of the Psychosocial Census of the State of São Paulo and the São Paulos Health Secretary State Health Plan 2008-2011 and lays out a Deinstitutionalization Project (two therapeutic residences) for these people, given their characteristics and features of the city of Araras.

O campo da Saúde Mental no Brasil tem se voltado para a construção de serviços comunitários de atenção psiquiátrica, pautados nos preceitos da Reforma Psiquiátrica, como possibilidade de substituir a lógica asilar pelo resgate das habilidades sóciorelacionais do doente mental, a partir da reabilitação psicossocial, sob a abordagem interdisciplinar. Entretanto, a experiência em psiquiatria mostra que o doente mental mantém-se transitando entre o serviço comunitário e o hospital psiquiátrico, sendo alvo, ainda hoje, da disciplinarização, violência e privação impostas pela instituição hospitalar. Neste sentido, constituiu objetivo deste estudo apreender o sentido de ser internado em hospital psiquiátrico, a partir do sujeito que vivenciou a experiência da internação. Para alcançar o objetivo proposto, o estudo recorreu ao referencial teóricofilosófico da ontologia fundamental de Martin Heidegger. Participaram da pesquisa quatro sujeitos portadores de transtornos mentais regularmente matriculados em um centro de atenção psicossocial no interior do estado de São Paulo, que aceitaram discorrer sobre a vivência da internação psiquiátrica, como se mostrou a eles, por meio de entrevista semi-dirigida gravada. Para tal, os sujeitos foram convidados a rememorar a experiência de ser internado em hospital psiquiátrico e tecer significações a respeito. A partir da apropriação de elementos do referencial heideggeriano, foi empreendida a Analítica Existencial, que gerou a construção dos Núcleos do Sentido: (a) A mostração do ser-aí no ser-doente-mental; (b) O modo de ser-no-mundo do ser-doente-mental e (c) Ser-no-mundo-cuidado na impessoalidade. Estes núcleos permitiram que a verdade do ser-doente-mental fosse desvelada a partir dele próprio, mediante o entendimento da estrutura do ser-aí (Dasein) proposta por Heidegger, mostrada pelo modo de ocupar-se da internação psiquiátrica. Ao emergir o ser-cuidado-no-mundo-com-o-outro, foi possível delinear o sentido de ser internado em hospital psiquiátrico, cerne da compreensão ontológica da vivência da internação psiquiátrica. / Brazilian Mental Health field has being conducted to building community psychiatric attention services, as possibility to substitute manicomial thinking for rescue of mental patients social-relational abilities, through psicossocial rehabilitee, by interdisciplinary approach. However, psychiatric experience show us that mental patient has kept himself passing through community services and psychiatric hospital, being marked, until today, by disciplinarization, violence and privation forced by hospitable institution. By this meaning, the studys objective was apprehending the meaning of being hospitalized at psychiatric hospital, passing through person that has lived the hospitalizations experience. To reach the objective proposed, the study made use of fundamental ontology of Martin Heidegger theory-philosophic referential. Took part in the search four people that have mental disease, regularly registered in a psicossocial attention service in interior of São Paulo, that accepted talk about psychiatric hospitalization live, like it showed to them, through a semi directed interview that was registered by recorder. For that, people were invited to remember the experience of being hospitalized at psychiatric hospital and weave meanings about that. Through elements by heideggerian referential appropriating, it was applied Existential Analytics, that generated the construction of Meanings Nucleus: (a) Being there showing through mental-patient-being; (b) being-in-world way of mental-patient-being, and (c) Beingcare- in-world by impersonality. These nucleuses revealed the truth of mental-patientbeing by himself, passing by the thinking about Being There structure proposed by Heidegger, that was showed in the way of devote oneself to psychiatric hospitalization. To emerge being-care-in-world-with-other, it was possible to define the meaning of being hospitalized at psychiatric hospital, focal point of ontological comprehension about psychiatric hospitalization live.

A resposta penal para a junção entre crime e loucura é a medida de segurança contra o perigo. Forjado na costura entre os saberes médico e jurídico instituídos, a montagem ficcional do louco perigoso foi sendo criada a partir do século XIX e o seu destino acabou selado na maquinaria do manicômio judiciário como resposta normativa aos dispositivos de segregação na vigência da estratégia complexa de controle dos corpos na gestão biopolítica da nossa sociedade. Essa pesquisa parte da aposta e esperança na produção de uma outra saída e, para tanto, buscamos explicitar o que fez essa maquinaria se armar da forma com que se armou e quais as perspectivas de desarmá-la, fazendo uma genealogia sócio-histórica das bases epistêmicas que sustentam, ainda nos dias de hoje, a existência do manicômio judiciário. E, ao fazer esse caminho procuramos responder recorrendo a cenas-imagensmemórias, apresentando os efeitos no real da experiência, como as palavras afetam os corpos. Isto é, a forma pela qual essa ficção, que envolve os conceitos de crime e loucura juntos, incide sobre o sujeito. No desfazer a forma do manicômio judiciário trouxemos os movimentos da reforma psiquiátrica e a contribuição da psicanálise, quando o que se quer não é apontar a periculosidade, mas oferecer ao sujeito uma possibilidade de saída, colocando ele e suas respostas na centralidade da amarra discursiva que estão em jogo nessa engrenagem. / The criminal law response to the junction between crime and insanity is the measure of security against danger. Forged on the seam between the instituted medical and legal knowledge, the fictional mounting of the dangerous madman started being created as from the nineteenth century and its fate ended up sealed in the machinery of the judiciary psychiatric hospital as normative response to the devices of segregation in the validity of complex strategy to control the bodies in the bio-political management of our society. This research emerges from the betting I make on the hope of a different way out and, to this end, I seek the answer to what made this machinery arm itself the way it did and what are the prospects for disarming it, doing a social-historical genealogy of epistemic bases that support, to this very day , the existence of the judiciary psychiatric hospital. And in walking this path we seek to answer, recurring to scenes/images/memories, and showing the effects of real experience how words affect bodies. That is, the way in which this fiction, that involves the concepts of crime and madness together, acts on the subject. On the undoing of the judiciary psychiatric hospital we brought the psychiatric reform movements and the contribution of psychoanalysis, when what we want is not to point out dangerousness but to give the subject the possibility of an exit, putting him and his answers on the core of the discursive ties that are at stake in this mechanism.

A Reunião de Passagem de Plantão de Enfermagem (RPPE) realizada no Hospital- Dia (HD) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo, possui características particulares que a diferencia das reuniões tradicionais de passagem de plantão de enfermagem. Ela reune os integrantes da equipe interdisciplinar e todos têm a oportunidade tanto de informar sobre os pacientes assistidos no HD segundo os comportamentos apresentados nas suas atividades específicas, quanto de ouvir as informações dos demais integrantes. Trata-se, portanto, de um momento ímpar, reunindo motivos suficientes para levar a RPPE a objeto do presente estudo, que se caracteriza como quanti-qualitativo e teve como objetivos fazer um levantamento das freqüências dos integrantes da equipe interdisciplinar nessa reunião, dos relatos que fazem sobre observação e evolução dos pacientes e das decisões que tomam frente às ocorrências apresentadas. Para isso, foram utilizadas 20 RPPE em um período de tempo de dois meses, gravadas, transcritas na íntegra, realizadas sínteses e análise de conteúdo com apresentação descritiva dos resultados utilizando-se também de quadros. Os resultados mostraram uma participação maior de profissionais mais experientes na RPPE, talvez por eles coordenarem a maioria das atividades terapêuticas rotineiras do HD. Mostrou ainda, que a RPPE através do enfermeiro coordenador/facilitador, ofereceu oportunidades para os integrantes da equipe interdisciplinar informar sobre comportamentos dos pacientes nas suas atividades específicas, como também ouvir as informações dos outros. Ela mostrou-se cuidadosa, examinando sempre todos os pacientes semiinternados no HD, fazendo as observações e evoluções para cada um e tomando decisões sobre condutas a serem realizadas para aqueles que tinham necessidade no momento. A RPPE favoreceu trocas de experiências entre os profissionais das diversas áreas e contribuiu no processo ensino/aprendizagem do HD, que se constitui também em uma unidade de ensino. / The meeting for nursing shift alternation which happens at the Day Hospital in the Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto of São Paulo University, has particular characteristics which makes it different from the traditional nursing shift alternation meetings. It gathers members of the whole interdisciplinar team and each one, during this meeting, has the opportunity of informing about the patients under assistance at the Day Hospital regarding to their behaviour towards the specifics activities, as well as to hearing from the others. Therefore it is a single moment, combining sufficient reasons for bringing the nursing shift alternation meeting to object of the present study, which has a quantitative and qualitative character and has as objective to raise the interdisicplinar members frequency to those meetings, to report about observations and evolutions of patients, and decisions taken towards the presented situation. To obtain the result were used 20 nursing shift alternation meetings in a period of two months, which were recorded, integrally written-down, prepared content syntheses and analyses for descriptive results presentation also using panels. The results show an increased participation of experienced professionals in the nursing shift alternation meetings, maybe because they coordinate most of the therapeutical routine activities at the Day Hospital. It has also shown that the nursing shift alternation meeting, through the coordinator nurse, offers opportunities for all interdisciplinar team members to inform about their patients’ behaviour towards the specific activities, as well as to hearing from the others. The coordinator was careful, always examining all semi-hospitalized patient at the Day Hospital, making observation and evolution for each one, taking decisions about procedures to be adopted for those who were in need at that moment. The nursing shift alternation meeting gives support to exchanging experiences among professionals from different areas and contributes for the teaching/learning process at Day Hospital, which is also a teaching institution.

Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa do tipo estudo de caso, realizada em um macro-hospital público psiquiátrico de uma cidade do interior do Estado da Bahia. Enfoca o desenvolvimento das atividades dos enfermeiros no cotidiano institucional, suas formas de lidarem com as situações e as relações sociais estabelecidas com os demais profissionais de saúde que trabalham no hospital. Como docente da disciplina Enfermagem Psiquiátrica, tenho relação direta com o local, acompanhando estágio de estudantes de enfermagem, haja vista o convênio firmado entre a Secretaria de Saúde do Estado e a Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, a qual pertenço. Procedi a um recorte do campo, delimitando o espaço de um Pavilhão de internamento masculino. Como estratégia de levantamento dos dados utilizei a observação participante, entrevista semi-estruturada com os enfermeiros e demais membros que com ele convivem no dia-a-dia de trabalho, além de alguns documentos importantes na contextualização do trabalho desse profissional. Procedi a apresentação das atividades dos enfermeiros, estabelecendo a trama entre eles e deles com os demais profissionais da saúde. Observei uma grande concentração de suas tarefas em torno dos fazeres burocráticos, além de ver evidenciada a figura do paciente como intercorrências a serem resolvidas, denotando a visão que têm do doente mental. Na convivência com os outros profissionais, vêm-se como centro, apesar de essa visão nem sempre ser compartilhada por esses. Pelos dirigentes, o enfermeiro é visto como o grande contornador de situações, o que o coloca em uma posição politicamente conveniente na manutenção dos interesses majoritários. Nesse hospital, o profissional enfermeiro ocupa diversas funções hierarquicamente estratégicas junto à Diretoria, com a qual mantém contato direto e diário. As condições em que vivem os pacientes da instituição são extremamente precárias e degradantes para qualquer ser humano. A falta de prioridade dada à política de saúde mental no Estado contribui fortemente para a manutenção do modelo assistencial tradicional, ainda implementado nesse hospital. / The following study is the result of a case report held at a public pychiatric hospital of a city in the State of Bahia-Brazil. We focus on the development of nurses’ activities in the institutional routine and on their ways of dealing with situations and social relations with the other health professionals working at that hospital. Being a profesor in the Psychiatric Nursing field at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), I have direct contact at that hospital due to nursing students’ training (as a result of a partnership between the State Health Bureau and UEFS). We have mode a field sampling by taking one male, in-patient ward. We have used, as data-collecting strategy: participative observation, semi-structured questionaires applied to the nurses and other staff members who share daily work with them, and some documents which are important for contextualizing the work of such profesionals. We have presented the nursing tasks by establising their connections among nurses themselves and between nursing and other health profesionals. We have found great concentration of burocratic work among their tasks. Besides, we have found evidence of patients being considered medical problems to be solved, which expresses nurses’ views of the mentally-ill. In the staff daily routine, nurses considered themselves as being the core. However, this issue was not so evident when we looked upon the other profesionals’ views. Administrators considered nurses as being great situation managers. This places nurses at a politically-convenient situation for keeping majoritative interests. At this hospital, nurses have various hierarquically estrategic functions, close to the Board of Directors and having direct contact with them, daily. The living conditions of the patients in such institution are extremely poor and humiliating for any human being. The lack of priority given to mental health policies in this State of Bahia greatly contributes for the traditional assistential model, still playing at such hospital.

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M.Cur. / In a changing South-Africa new challenges regarding multiculturality emerge. In psychiatric nursing the psychiatric nurse also faces new challenges. During a cultural discussion, the personnel of a private psychiatric clinic realised that culture has numerous different meanings. (that numerous different meanings may be attached to culture). Culture has an interesting nature and certain expectations exist around culture. I have described this discussion in order to present a qualitative, descriptive, singular case study, within the paradigm of the Theory for Health promotion in Nursing. The data was processed according to the recommendations of Tesch (in Creswell, 1994:155). The discussion is presented according to certain themes. No guidelines have been set, but I have made certain recommendations that may be utilised in training of psychiatric nurses as well as in practise and research in the field of psychiatric nursing. The discussion was important because the participants were able to develop a sensitivity toward culture. This lead to the promotion of co-operation, productivity, and mutual understanding and respect within the context. The importance of the description of the discussion lies in the information that has been generated. This information will be available and will be incorporated as part of the body of knowledge in psychiatric nursing.

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M.Cur. (Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing) / Injuries suffered by nursing personnel as a result of aggression by mental health care users are on the increase. The psychiatric nurses and assistant nurses working in a psychiatric institution may suffer physical trauma, which gets healed over time with proper treatment, but the emotional scars are not attended to, hence some of the psychiatric nurses and assistant nurses working in a psychiatric institution do not cope. The impact of this trend is enormous and it is reflected in the health care service. The main purpose of this research study is to explore and describe the experiences of psychiatric nurses and assistant nurses who have been exposed to aggression by mental health care users while working in a psychiatric institution, in order to formulate guidelines to promote the mental health of these psychiatric and assistant nurses to. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was utilised in this study. There were two phases to the research, whereby phase one included the description and exploration of experiences of nurses who have been exposed to aggression by mental health care users in a public psychiatric hospital in Gauteng. In phase two, guidelines were formulated to promote the mental health of the nurses in this context. A purposive sampling method was used, since it provides information-rich cases for in-depth study. One-on-one in-depth phenomenological interviews were utilised to gather data. Lincoln and Guba’s approach to trustworthiness was adopted, and I employed the services of an independent coder - an experienced psychiatric nursing specialist - to assist. Thereafter a consensus discussion was held. Ethical principles were adhered to throughout the study. The findings of the research were discussed in the light of literature relevant to this research study and similar studies will be used to verify the findings. Tesch’s method of data analysis was utilised in analysing the data of this research study. The findings revealed that participants experience significant emotional distress as a result of both verbal and physical aggression by mental health care users. Aggressive behaviour was recognised by the participants as being the outcome of interplay between numerous interactional and contextual factors. Participants may at times, experience conflict between their job mandate – to care for the mental health care users – and their need for personal safety. This often results in a sense of ambivalence towards those they care for, as well as towards their job. The participants were of the opinion that they should be offered counselling or debriefing services by management after exposure to aggressive incidents in order to recuperate from the anxiety-provoking situation they encountered. They also mentioned that they do not receive enough training in handling aggressive mental health care users, hence at times they feel demotivated. Guidelines to facilitate the mental health of nursing personnel who have been exposed to aggression by mental health care users, were formulated and recommendations were made to psychiatric nursing practice, psychiatric nursing education and psychiatric research. Evaluation of the study was done and the role of an advanced psychiatric nurse in mobilising resources to facilitate the mental health of psychiatric nurses and assistant nurses working in a psychiatric institution who have been exposed to aggression by mental health care users, was outlined.