Cuidados aprisionados: repercussões na saúde do trabalhador de enfermagem do Hospital de Custódia e Tratamento Psiquiátrico

Abstract

The research problem is related to the issue of work organization at the HCTP and its repercussions in the health of the nurse. Objectives: To describe the practice of care in a confined environment, and interferences in the health of the nurse; To identify vulnerability factors in the process of working as a nurse at the HCTP; To analyze the forms that care professionals perceive their health when at work in the confined environment of the HCTP; To elaborate a manual of strategies to protect the health of the care professional who works in the confined environment of the HCTP; A research with a qualitative and descriptive approach which deploys socio-cultural characterization of subjects and semi-structured interviews as tools for data collection. With regards to data, an analysis of the content thematic was undertaken, as well as an evaluation of the analytical categories which in turn were examined in the light psychopathology of work, and the complexity principles of Edgar Morin. The results indicate that the manner work is organized at the HCTP interferes with the health of the nurse insofar as that he is placed between two dispositions: that of caring, and that of treating as he/she undertakes his/her activities. It was observed that the majority of subjects were admitted to the institution through public exam and without prior knowledge of the system which provoked fear, anguish and stress in these workers. It was also noticed that in the daily practice the team, when caring in this environment, faces limits and challenges. The research unveiled the perception of the nursing team with regards to work-related health problems, and that interdisciplinarity could be a strategy to make work more viable. It also shed light on the role of education on a permanent basis as a tool to enhance both the quality of assistance, and the quality of life with regards to work at HCTP. Final Considerations: The situational diagnosis points to the necessity of measures directed towards the definition of the role of the HCTP in society and in the lives of those who are kept there, the psychotic-infractors, to the rethinking of the powers acting within the institution which are harnessed in such a way as to hinder any attempt at a paradigm change, and to the rethinking of the work organization, in order for it to turn into creative possibilities and a sense of accomplishment for the worker, rather than suffering.