Objective:
To understand the meanings of governance of nurses on nursing practice in an obstetric center and build an explanatory model.
Methods:
A qualitative study used as its methodological Grounded Theory. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 27 health professionals from the maternity of a university hospital in southern Brazil, divided into four sample groups.
Results:
The explanatory model consisted of 10 categories and enabled the construction of the phenomenon: "Emerging governance from the professional nursing practice anchored in the exercise of control over the environment of care and obstetric center in the field of scientific knowledge and professional experience.
Conclusion:
Governance is an expertise developed by nurses through the procedural knowledge acquired through professional experience, aiming to overcome barriers to organizational and relational for the domain of environmental care.
Management; Obstetric nursing; Nursing Care; Nursing Service, Hospital
