title: [Perceptions of nurses about leadership].
abstract: This study aimed at ascertaining the perceptions of nurses facing the use of managerial leadership as a tool in their work process. This was a qualitative study of descriptive and exploratory type, conducted with eleven nurses from a large hospital in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, during the months of February and March 2008. For data collection were used semi-structured interviews and focus group. The content analysis was chosen as a technique for processing the data, resulting in two categories: meanings attributed to the leadership and authority versus authoritarianism. It was noticed that even the leadership offering advantages in nursing work, are still great the difficulties to understand it and, especially, to put it into practice, making it necessary to create programs and strategies to improve the performance of the leadership as a nurses managerial instrument.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil. samestoy@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Simone Coelho
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Amestoy
authors.forename: Maria Elisabeth
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Cestari
authors.forename: Maira Buss
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Thofehrn
authors.forename: Vânia Marli Schubert
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Backes
authors.forename: Viviane Marten
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Milbrath
authors.forename: Letícia de Lima
authors.initials: Lde L
authors.lastname: Trindade
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009729:Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult