Nurse management skills required at an emergency care unit

Abstract

Objective: To identify the management skills needed for this professional at an emergency care unit. Method: An exploratory descriptive qualitative study conducted with eight nurses in which semi-structured interviews with nonparticipating systematic observation were conducted; the data was processed by content analysis. Results: The categories which emerged from the content analysis served as a list of management skills necessary to their work at the emergency care unit: leadership, decision making, communication, time management and teamwork. Conclusion: management skills can communicate between each other and are mobilized in a hologramatic manner in the nurses' performance in a scenario which greatly enhances the technical aspect as key to a productive practice.