title: Analysis of the decision-making process of nurse managers: a collective reflection.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze the decision-making model adopted by nurses from the perspective of some decision-making process theories.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative approach, based on action research. Semi-structured questionnaires and seminars were conducted from April to June 2012 in order to understand the nature of decisions and the decision-making process of nine nurses in position of managers at a public hospital in Southern Brazil. Data were subjected to content analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  data were classified in two categories: the current situation of decision-making, which showed a lack of systematization; the construction and collective decision-making, which emphasizes the need to develop a decision-making model.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the decision-making model used by nurses is limited because it does not consider two important factors: the limits of human rationality, and the external and internal organizational environments that influence and determine right decisions.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Elizabete Araujo
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Eduardo
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Aida Maris
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Peres
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Maria de Lourdes
authors.initials: Mde L
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Administração Geral e Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Karina de Dea
authors.initials: Kde D
authors.lastname: Roglio
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernardino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators