Leadership Strategies Used by Health Professionals in Hospital Units: Integrative Review
Abstract
Introduction: Manager in its various operational levels, including the hospital management, needs in your profile to present leadership because this feature is an essential part to work with your team. Objective: Identifying leadership strategies employed by managers in hospital units. Method: Integrative review it was conducted in the following databases - Scopus, PUBMED, LILACS and SCIELO. It was considered all published articles in the last ten years until October 2015. Results: It were selected and analyzed 12 articles. Strategies communication among staff; participatory management and professional qualification were outstanding results in this study. Communication presented predominance as the most used strategy, present in 58.33% of the analyzed articles. Conclusion: Despite the scale of the challenges confronting leadership in hospital units is possible to bet on strategies that promote the achievement of objectives of these institutions.
Descriptors: Leadership; Hospital Administration; Hospitals.
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