The performance of nursing in therapeutic residence services

Abstract

Introduction: The Therapeutic Residential Services (SRTs) aim to reduce hospitalizations in psychiatric hospitals, encourage autonomy, promote the rescue of citizenship and reintegrate these individuals into society through psychosocial rehabilitation, therefore, it is part of the National Mental Health Policy. Objective: To assess the importance of nursing work in therapeutic residency services. Methods: Integrative Literature Review carried out in the Nursing Database, the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online and Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. After crossing the descriptors, 109 articles were found. Articles published with a time frame of the last five years, in Portuguese, full text, available in full and theme consistent with the research objective, were included. Duplicate articles in the databases, those with no affinity with the theme, incomplete and/or unavailable text were excluded. Ten articles were selected for the sample. Results: The findings reiterate the importance of the process of forming the nurse's identity as a therapist in mental health and psychiatry, breaking paradigms, building more independent subjects and consolidating new practices committed to breaking social barriers, current economic and political conditions. Conclusion: The study demonstrated the importance of nurses in the implementation process of Therapeutic Homes, with regard to facing obstacles to the realization of such a process, such as: resistance of the established society, process of stigmatization, chronicity of users, articulation of services in a mental health substitute network, closure of asylum institution, human resources to work in Therapeutic Homes, among others.