Nursing and leadership: perceptions of nurse managers from a hospital in southern Brazil

Abstract

Objective: To identify how nurse managers define and exercise leadership in a philanthropic Hospital in Southern Brazil; to identify ways of preparing these nurses for leadership. Method: this was a quantitative study, conducted with 15 nurses who worked in management positions at that hospital in 2011. A structured questionnaire applied in the field of research was used for data collection. Results: the concept of leadership is recognized positively by the nurses and is associated with effective and efficient communication and ethics, however, for such training was reduced and limited only to the undergraduate period. The resistance in the team was identified as the main barrier to the exercise of leadership. Conclusion: Specific training is necessary with regard to leadership in nursing, qualifying professionals to a more competent, humanized, and ethical performance

Análise conceitual da gestão do cuidado em enfermagem no âmbito hospitalar

“…(6) For this reason, nurses sometimes identify their job as being of a bureaucratic-care nature and sometimes classify it as directed to care, maintaining a dichotomy between management and care. (5) A study focused on the theoretical elaboration of nursing care management in the hospital context corroborated this, supporting the idea that nurses have conceptual difficulties with nursing care management actions and revealing a dialectical relationship between management and care expertise. This dialectic consists of an entanglement involving knowledge about management and care, through the existence of an interface separating these two objects in nursing practice, so that know-how has a technical and technological dimension, and involves personal and scientific knowledge, technical skills, and management and care competencies.…”

“…Nursing and leadership: perceptions of nurse managers from a hospital in Southern Brazil. Pereira LA et al (5) To identify how nurse managers define and execute leadership in a philanthropic hospital in the South region of Brazil and the training methods of these nurses to develop this activity.…”

“…(4) The management function encompasses actions peculiar to nursing work that are directly associated with the nursing care process, mobilizing actions in relationships, associations and interactions among people, (3) which makes leadership an essential competence to accomplish this, since it facilitates personal and group interactions to meet common goals. (1,5) However, when nurses carry out the management dimension, they often encounter dilemmas, doubts, conflicts, misunderstandings and contradictions, because they have to deal with administrative duties that are not well-coordinated with care actions.…”

Atribuições e competências de gerentes de enfermagem: pesquisa descritiva exploratória

“…Promoting transformations in work through the conciliation between the goals of the organization and the priorities of the nursing team with a view to the quality of care provided to the user (17) , is the activity of the nursing manager. Thus, it is essential to create strategies that develop the nurse manager in their search for leadership knowledge, as well as expanding specific management training (18) .…”

Mobilização da liderança: concepção de graduandos em enfermagem Leadership mobilization: conception of undergraduate nursing students

“…12,16 It is noteworthy that the health work field is highly complex and dynamic, which makes the professionals in this area to start their activities, to experience different aspects in their daily practice so that they can meet the demands of health services. 6,17 When faced with the reality, the just graduated nurse can find conflicts arising from what they learned in class, correlating with the history of the profession and the reality they experience and, therefore, he may be judged by his subordinates, co-workers and others for lack of practical skill, but with many theoretical knowledge.…”