It is about an experience story that is based on the practice of the daily of the Psychiatric Nursing, where the author has for objective to describe in simple and direct boarding, its difficulties of adaptation in the fulfilment of its new paper as nurse of a psychiatric Day Hospital, after ten years of performance in a unit of psychiatric internment, and its current performance in a center of daily attention. It is conclude that during its formation, the nurse is prepared to develop action clear and definite techniques, while the new model considered for the psychiatric Reformation demands of this professional initiative, creativity and the establishment of affective and social bonds.
Psychiatric Nursing; Day Hospital; Community Health Nursing; Psychiatric Hospital