Percepção, satisfação e resistências relatadas por profissionais de enfermagem na atuação em psiquiatria

Objective : to identify nursing professionals’ perception, satisfaction and resistance to work in psychiatry. Method s: this is a exploratory study with 16 nursing professionals of psychiatric hospitalization unit of the State of Sao Paulo. Interviews with guiding questions about the beginning of their career and how they feel nowadays working in this area. Content thematic analysis. Results : of the 16 professionals, 68.8% women, mean age 35.7 years old. 87.5% of the professionals have resisted to work in psychiatry. The resistance reasons were lack of preparation (100%), preconception (43.7%), scare of developing mental disorders (30%). Nowadays 50% are scared of aggressive patients, but they do not like to work in other area. They are satisfied with their work because they feel important to the patients’ recovery. Conclusion : many nursing professionals began working in psychiatry due the lack of opportunities for their first job. Preconception regarding psychiatry, insufficient teaching of psychiatric nursing and the fear of developing mental disorders predispose these professionals to consider the psychiatric nursing career negatively.