Abstract

Chairun Nasirin, Andries Lionardo.

In psychiatric nursing practices, nurses are demanded to treat mental disorder that can be experienced by everyone due to many factors that can affect the mental behavior of the human mind in particular. This study seeks to carry out a critical study of the role of nurses in the treatment of psychiatric patients. Psychiatric nursing is a nursing effort to handle mentally, physically, psychologically and spiritually and directly patients can live a normal life and be able to adapt in the family, friends and community. This study was conducted with a qualitative method with a descriptive analysis approach. The results of the study revealed that the role of nurses as care givers especially psychiatric patients is very critical, because in reality, psychiatric patients are some chronic patients in mental hospitals.