[Teaching apprenticeship in psychiatric nursing: an experience during the postgraduate period].

I present my experience related to an internship on teaching upon developing activities in the discipline of Psychiatric Nursing II, during the Nursing graduation at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in the first semester of 2004. It is a theoretical-practical subject, divided into two blocks. The internships take place in a psychiatric hospital and in the community through domicile visits. I have found out that the psychiatric hospital was the scenario of several significances. The students appreciated the domicile visits, even under a few difficulties. After a discussion based on the relevant literature, I came to the conclusion that this experience was beneficial to me for allowing the integration between graduation and postgraduation.