Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:47:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MildredNBM.pdf: 247016 bytes, checksum: 9a2eb57ad477ab7964bc571f15fc4a30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-12-11 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The present study analyses the supervisory practice of the nurse in the hospital environment. It has, as its main objective identify the use of planning, supervision and evaluation, as managerial instruments in the daily nursing practice. It tries also to identify the importance given to these instruments in their supervisory actions and the difficulties encountered in their use. It deals with an exploratory and analytical investigation with a qualitative approach having as its main point of analysis the principles of strategic planning. In order for it to be done 10 nurses were interviewed, distributed in three public hospitals in the city of Natal/RN. The results show that, although the nurses recognize the importance of the managerial instruments, they do not put them into practice in an effective and systematic way. They justify it because of the existence of personal, professional and institutional difficulties. On the other hand we could conclude from what they say that there is the desire to overcome the eminently burocratic vision of the management. Thus, they express a feeling for change and point in the direction of looking for ways that will contribute to innovate this practice / O presente estudo analisa a pr?tica gerencial do enfermeiro no campo hospitalar. Tem como principal objetivo identificar a utiliza??o do planejamento, da supervis?o e da avalia??o, como instrumentos gerenciais, na pr?tica cotidiana do enfermeiro. Busca, igualmente, identificar a import?ncia concedida a esses instrumentos em suas a??es gerenciais e as dificuldades enfrentadas em rela??o ? sua utiliza??o. Trata-se de uma investiga??o de car?ter explorat?rio e anal?tico, com abordagem qualitativa, tendo como fio condutor da an?lise os princ?pios do planejamento estrat?gico. Para sua realiza??o foram entrevistadas 10 enfermeiras, distribu?das em tr?s hospitais p?blicos da cidade de Natal/RN.Os resultados indicam que, embora as enfermeiras reconhe?am a import?ncia dos instrumentos gerenciais, n?o os utilizam na pr?tica, de forma efetiva e sistem?tica. Justificam a exist?ncia de dificuldades de cunho pessoal, profissional e institucional. Por outro lado, pudemos depreender de suas falas o desejo de superar a vis?o eminentemente burocr?tica da ger?ncia. Assim sendo, expressam um sentimento na dire??o de mudan?as e apontam no sentido de buscar sa?das que possam contribuir para inovar a sua pr?tica