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Emanuelle Caires Dias Araújo Nunes1, Edla Lobo Muniz1
1Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem. Campus Anísio Teixeira, Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brasil.
Objective:
The aim of this paper was to reveal the individual nurse in the leadership process for transpersonal care of the nursing team.
Method:
This is a descriptive-exploratory and qualitative study grounded in Transpersonal Care provided at the General Hospital in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, with 10 nurses who coordinated services at the unit in 2013. Data were collected using a mirror and semi-structured interviews subjected to thematic analysis.
Results:
The following three categories emerged: Leadership in nursing: potentialities and barriers that permeate intersubjectivity; Transpersonal care of the leader with the team; and transpersonal leadership on balance: critical nodes.
Conclusion:
The final reflections revealed the individual nurse in the leadership process for transpersonal care of the nursing team, and stress the need to provide institutional and educational support that can help develop the servant and transpersonal skills of the leading nurse.
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