title: Surgical center: challenges and strategies for nurses in managerial activities.
abstract: Analyze the challenges and strategies of nurses performing managerial activities in a surgical center.
  
  
  
  Exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, involving six nurses by means of the Focus Group Technique, between April and August 2013. Data were submitted to thematic content analysis.
  
  
  
  The main challenges noted were deficiency of material resources, communication noise, adequacy of personnel downsizing, and relationships with the multidisciplinary team. Key strategies include construction of co-management spaces to promote integration among professionals, conflict resolution and exchange of knowledge.
  
  
  
  Managerial activities involve the promotion of dialogic moments to coordinate the different processes in the surgical center to provide inputs to expand safety and quality of services provided.
authors.affiliation: Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA). Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Fabiana Zerbieri
authors.initials: FZ
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Escola de Enfermagem. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Clarice Maria
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Dall'Agnol
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D013531:Surgicenters / Q000458:organization & administration*