title: [Managerial nursing competencies in the expansion of the Family Health Strategy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To relate the managerial competencies required of nurses with the process of change experienced in the expansion of the Family Health Strategy (FHS).
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative research conducted in primary health care in a southern Brazilian city, through interviews with 32 managerial and clinical nurses. The interviews were processed by IRAMUTEQ software. The resulting classes were examined under five managerial competencies to promote change.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The four classes obtained from data were: the Family Health Strategy expansion process; confrontations and potentialities; mobilization for the change; innovations in medical and nursing consultations. The classes were related to one or more competencies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The expansion of the Family Health Strategy requires managerial competencies of implementing and sustaining change, negotiating agreements and commitments, using power and influence ethically and effectively, sponsoring and selling new ideas, and encouraging and promoting innovation.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.|Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Curitiba, Departamento de Atenção Primária, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ingrid Margareth Voth
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Lowen
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Enfermagem, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Aida Maris
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Peres
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Enfermagem, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Karla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Crozeta
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Enfermagem, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernardino
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carmem Lúcia Colomé
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D011361:Professional Competence