Labyrinths of nursing training and the Brazilian National Mental Health Policy.

OBJECTIVE

to analyze the training of nurses from public and private educational institutions of the city of São Paulo from the perspective of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform.

METHODS

a qualitative, descriptive-exploratory research, using as methodological framework documentary analysis of the pedagogical projects of the participating institutions and content analysis of the interviews carried out with mental health professors.

RESULTS

it was identified that most mental health courses had insufficient workload for adequate training; theory emphasized the study of mental disorders and drug treatment; practice, in some schools, was carried out in psychiatric hospitals. There were problems that interfered with the quality of the education offered. Final considerations: educational institutions still did not offer training in undergraduate nursing from the perspective of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform.