title: [Institutional demands and care demands in the management of nurses in an emergency unit].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize the registered nurse's management activities in an emergency department.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative research, implemented from February to April 2009 by a semi-structured interview with eight nurses from an emergency department at a university hospital in Curitiba, PR. Brazil. The data was submitted to content analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two categories emerged: Management focused on meeting the institutional demands that emphasizes the Registered Nurses' bureaucratic activities required by the hospital; and Management focused on meeting the nursing care demands that prioritizes the care as the main management activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study reached its objective and joined the literature findings that the division between care and management does not match with the registered nurse's performance at an emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR. jhmontezelli@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Juliana Helena
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Montezelli
authors.forename: Aida Maris
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Peres
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernardino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*