Work process and management competences of the nurses in the family health strategy

• Autor(a) principal: Paula, Marcilene de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Peres, Aida Maris, Bernardino, Elizabeth, Eduardo, Elizabete Araújo, Macagi, Silvânia Terezinha Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Rev Rene (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/3634
• topic: Nursing; Professional Competence; Practice Management; Family Health.

The objective was to identify the dimension of the process of nursing work in a unit of the Family Health Strategy and correlate the necessary competences for the development of managerial activities. It is a descriptive study using the technique of non-participant observation during 160 hours of activities of four nurses from a unit of the Family Health Strategy, from March to May, 2011. The results showed that the care dimension holds 42% of the time spent by nurses in their activities, followed by management (33%), education (20%) and political participation (2.5%). In managerial dimension, managerial competences were classified as follows: communication (55%), leadership (33%), permanent education (8%) and decision making (4%). These competences are interrelated and developed together with administrative functions: planning, coordination, direction and control. For the development of their attributions in the Family Health Strategies the nurse professionals uses administrative tools demanding constant mobilization of different competences. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20130005000015