Nursing management practicum: impact to the team in medical-surgical units.

Objective: Learn the perceptions of nursing professionals of a university hospital regarding the interactive process with nursing management practicum students.

Methods: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study was conducted by means of 11 semi-structured interviews with nurses, nursing technicians and nursing aides in medical-surgical units. The information, collected between December 2013 and January 2014, was submitted to a thematic analysis and discussed according to Pichon-Rivière.

Motivations, contradictions and ambiguities in the leadership of nurses in management positions in a university hospital.

Objective: To analyze the contradictions and ambiguities which permeate nurses' motivation for exercising leadership in management positions, in a university hospital.

Method: This study has a qualitative approach and is exploratory and descriptive, and used a total of 33 semi-structured interviews which were submitted to thematic analysis.

Results: The information converged on five categories: Motivation to take on a management position; The view of nursing managers on the exercising of leadership; The emblematic aspect of working with people; Leadership in nursing--mediatory and conciliatory; Time: a dilemma between managing and caring.