title: [The purpose of nursing work with families dealing with mental disease in their daily lives].
abstract: The article reflects upon the purpose of the nursing work inserted in a particularly important historical moment to Mental Health System of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It approaches the psychiatric assistance reform and in it the insertion of nurses and families that deal with mental illness, searching to define its purpose at the convergence between the essence of the proposal of the mental health assistance restructure and the daily lives of professional practice.
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande/RS. marare@matrix.com.br
authors: M R
authors: MR
authors: da Silva
mesh_terms: D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*