USE OF LEADERSHIP AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL IN THE PROCESS OF WORK OF NURSES

Abstract

In the last decades with the change of paradigms in healthcare organizations about leadership, passing of a traditional and hierarchical vision to a vision of more flexible working, new leadership profiles have been required of nurses that develop the management in the health organizations. As a result of these changes, the leadership should be focused on the quality of health care, particularly in the management and assistance. Thus, considering the importance of this new paradigm of leadership for nursing, this study aimed to verify, in scientific production, if the assumptions of these new concepts of leadership are present in the practice of nurses working in hospitals. The study was developed through integrative review of nursing scientific production available online. The articles were classified into two categories that showed the work process and the leadership and management focused on team. It was evident that nurses in their practice assumes administrative activities to meet the needs of organizations, including those relating to administration of professional nursing staff and that in carrying out these activities has the concern to provide an enabling environment and more flexible to work be developed as a team, which facilitates the actions for the quality of patient care.