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Promotion of nurses to academic management: discussing their role through the theory of adaptation (70´s 80´s)

Qualitative research aimed to show the nurses role performed during the management challenge in nursing schools. A retrospective diachronic historical type study was conducted through data collection, critical evaluation and facts presentation based on Roy´s adaptation theory. The study reveal that pioneer nurse managers achieved a professional projection inside the university academic scope, based on adaptation, interdependence, by transcending in optimal way between organization members and showing initially a compensatory adaptation level and later on integrated with innovation in the performance of manager´s role, based on dialogue, with presence in several scenarios as well as participation in several sectors.

Nursing; Management; History; Schools of Nursing


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