Gerenciamento em enfermagem: percepção dos enfermeiros de um hospital público

The professionals nurses are of fundamental importance in the administration of the unit hospitalar, with that, these professionals' presence, in that adapts that possess knowledge concerning the structures hospitalares and of the processes assistenciais, he/she becomes agents in the operacionalidades of those actions. This study had as general objective to identify the meanings, lived by the nurses in the administration in nursing of a public hospital in the municipal district of Simplicio Mendes, PI. The specific objectives: to draw the participants of the service professional profile; to describe the nurse's feelings that emerge of the administration condition in the unit hospitalar and to understand the nurses' related to the exercise of the attendance vision in the unit hospitalar. The accomplished methodology was a study of exploratory descriptive character and qualitative nature, and of field, using glimpsed semiestruturada, containing questions open, closed, the instrument was divided in two parts; the first with identification data, and the second break urging the understanding as for the nursing administration. The study revealed that in the sample the 06 participants possess knowledge on nursing administration, and the importance of this tool in the process of the care, it is like this fundamental that the professionals of health are qualified to make decisions. However, the study propitiated a larger reflection on the nurse's managerial practice in relation to his/her professional formation that is the socket of decision with base in the quality service for the patients.