Leadership mobilization: conception of undergraduate nursing students

Objective: to identify the graduate design of the last period of a nursing course on the mobilization of leadership in professional nursing practice. Method: descriptive qualitative study with semi-structured interview, held in private College of Curitiba-PR. Six nursing students participated. Results: through the Bardin Content analysis we identified the following categories: features needed for a nurse leader; limiting factors for nursing leadership; and recognition of leadership styles. Conclusions: Although the statements of the students corroborate the literature and show that they have a critical profile with relevant thoughts about the theoretical content on the theme in question, which probably was approached during graduation, the lack of experience in the world of work leads to naive perceptions of leadership in working life.