The management of the health system and the formation of the nurse

Abstract

The management model of the current health system meets in a phase of transformation. The contribution of the nurses in the implantation and development of health politics for the adequate practice of the public health system has been valued.  The main objective of the present study is analyze the contributions of the nurse’s academic formation for the management of the health system. A literature review was performed during the period of January of 1993 to October of 2007, using databases LILACS, SciELO and BDENF. The authors  searched in articles the ways of performance of the nurse in the different fields of the management of the health system, identifying intervening factors in the management process and aspects related to its formation. The results obtained during the bibliography searched two categories: performance of the nurse as a manager and the academic formation of the nurse for management of health systems. The present study suggest that the inadequate academic formation concerning the reality of the country’s system health can explain the unprepared of the health teams to assume the management of the health system. Finally, we propose that the critical orientation in the formation of the nurse in the last years favors his performance in the management  of the health systems.

Key words: Nursing; Management in health; System of Health; Education.