title: [The style of leadership of nurses: description of an experience].
abstract: This study identify the leadership style is adopt for nurses which frequent Post-Graduation Courses offer by Schools of Nursing of Metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Brazil. The data collection used an instrument proposed by David R. Frew was used in a sample of 184 nurses. The instrument classify the leadership in five styles: very autocratic, autocratic moderate mixed, democratic moderate and very democratic. The results shows the predominant utilization of the mixed style (83.15%) followed by autocratic moderate (4.89%). The styles very autocratic and very democratic were less expressive (1.63%) and (0.54%) of the sample.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Assistência e Orientação Profissional da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
authors.forename: Enaura Helena Brandão
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Chaves
authors.forename: Gisela S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: de Moura
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009729:Nursing