title: [Open doors: new possibilities in psychiatric nursing teaching].
abstract: This paper describes a teaching experience in psychiatric nursing at an open mental health care service. Students' discourses show how meaningful and rich an experience it has been for their careers. Participating in this training has allowed them to learn the role of nurses, to improve assistance by applying both theory and practice as well as to recognize people with mental disorders as ordinary citizens.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Aplicada da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Monsenhor Horta, 476-Calafate-30480-120-Belo Horizonte-Minas Gerais-Brasil.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Villa
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cadete
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*