Managerial competencies of nurses in the hospital environment: integrative review

To analyze the evidence about the managerial competencies of nurses in the hospital organization. An integrative literature review study conducted in the Databases Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, SciVerse Scopus, Web of Science, Current Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Nursing Databases, which after submitted to inclusion and exclusion criteria resulted in a sample of 20 articles. From the synthesis of evidence it was possible to identify three thematic categories 'Perceptions about the management process', 'Strategies for the development of competencies' and 'Instruments for assessing managerial competencies. It is concluded that the managerial competencies of nurses should be developed through a continuous process. It was also evidenced the need for studies that construct and validate an instrument for measuring competencies at the national level, offering subsidies for the mobilization of new professional competencies in the nurse's management practice.