Objective: To understand entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education in the context of postgraduate nursing.
Method: Qualitative study based on Grounded Theory. The theoretical sample consisted of 15 master's and doctoral students and seven professors from a postgraduate nursing program at a university in southern Brazil.
Objective: To identify general enterprising tendency and competence in interpersonal communication of nursing students and correlate them with personal and academic variables.
Method: A cross-sectional study at a university in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Three instruments were used for data collection: 1 - A questionnaire with personal and academic variables; 2 - The General measure of Enterprising Tendency test (GET); and 3 - The Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (Escala de Competência em Comunicação Interpessoal - ECCI).
Objective: To identify the level of interpersonal communication competence among nursing students and to correlate its domains with sociodemographic and academic variables.
Method: This is a correlational study, developed through a multicenter research project in six federal universities in Brazil. Data from 1,079 nursing students were collected through a questionnaire with sociodemographic and academic variables and the Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale.
Objective: To demonstrate in the national and international literature the concept and typologies of entrepreneurship in Nursing.
Method: Integrative review in six databases, with the descriptors entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurialism, intrapreneurial, iniciativa empresarial, contrato de risco, nursing, nurse, nurses, enfermagem and enfermeira, making a final sample of 31 articles.
Results: The concept of entrepreneurship in Nursing is related to personal and professional characteristics, such as autonomy, independence, flexibility, innovation, proactivity, self-confidence and responsibility.
Etjective: To understand the care management strategies used by nurses in the governance of nursing practice in a maternity ward.
Method: Qualitative study based on grounded theory conducted with 27 participants, partitioned into four sample groups. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed through open, axial, and selective coding.
Objective: Understand the conditions involved in the management of nursing care in emergency care units.
Methodology: Qualitative research using the methodological framework of the Grounded Theory. Data collection occurred from September 2011 to June 2012 through semi-structured interviews with 20 participants of the two emergency care units in the city of Florianopolis, Brazil.