title: [Leadership in critical care settings: reflections and challenges for the Brazilian Nursing].
abstract: The objective of this study was to reflect on the leadership, especially in the intensive care nursing, based on the prospect of nurses, teachers, nursing students and in the literature on the subject. The leadership of the nurse in intensive care units faces challenges and paradoxes and is present in the planning of care, in the moments of ethical and bioethical conflicts, in the supervision of care, in capacity of making decisions quickly and safety, in knowing deal with the issues involving the process of living and dying.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC.
authors.forename: Francine Lima
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Gelbcke
authors.forename: Lúcia Amante de
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Grace M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Dal Sasso
authors.forename: Eliane
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nascimento
authors.forename: Maria Bettina Camargo
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Bulb
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003422:Critical Care; D007857:Leadership; D009729:Nursing