LIDERANÇA IDEAL: PERCEPÇÃO DE ESTUDANTES DE ENFERMAGEM

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate whether students of a higher education course in nursing identify leadership style 9.9 as the ideal for professional practice. Method: descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted with 106 students. Leadership was evaluated by Grid & Leadership in Nursing, which measures five styles: 1.1 - Management-impoverished, 9.1 - Authority-obedience, 5.5 - Organizational man management, 1.9 - Recreational club management and 9.9 - Team management. Descriptive statistics and the Kruskal-Wallis test were used to compare students' perceptions over the years. Results: the means between years, in different years of the course, ranged from: 17.29-19.00 to style 9.9; 15.48- 15.92 for 5.5; 13.86-14.67 to 1.9; 8.74-9.73 for 1.1 and 7.74-8.93 for 9.1. Conclusion: the students, regardless of the year in which they were in the undergraduate nursing course, identified style 9.9 - Team Management as the ideal for professional performance of nurses.