title: Motivations, contradictions and ambiguities in the leadership of nurses in management positions in a university hospital.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the contradictions and ambiguities which permeate nurses' motivation for exercising leadership in management positions, in a university hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study has a qualitative approach and is exploratory and descriptive, and used a total of 33 semi-structured interviews which were submitted to thematic analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The information converged on five categories: Motivation to take on a management position; The view of nursing managers on the exercising of leadership; The emblematic aspect of working with people; Leadership in nursing--mediatory and conciliatory; Time: a dilemma between managing and caring.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Leading people can be both a great encouragement, and an impeding aspect, bearing in mind the nuances of teamwork and the complexity of the context in which this process is constructed. In addition to this, conciliatory and mediatory attitudes are shown to be fundamental for a healthy and productive organizational atmosphere; however, the lack of time was indicated as a dilemma between managing and caring.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Enfermagem, Porto AlegreRS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Clarice Maria
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Dall'Agnol
authors.forename: Gisela Maria Schebella Souto
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: de Moura
authors.forename: Ana Maria Muller
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de Magalhães
authors.forename: Maria Lúcia Rodrigues
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Falk
authors.forename: Caren de Oliveira
authors.initials: Cde O
authors.lastname: Riboldi
authors.forename: Andréia Peres
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
mesh_terms: D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009042:Motivation; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital