The nurse manager training for an efficient leadership

The nurse manager has a central leadership role both for functional organization of the hospital wards and for the satisfaction and efficiency of the professional staff that he/she coordinates. This professional role is complex and requires different management skills, often undervalued by nurse managers who may live the responsibility of their role as a stressor. Considering the wide literature about this topic is marked by a dispersion of the research and of the studies results, we aim to draw the profile of an effective and efficient nurse manager. This profile may be useful for nurse manager selection and for pre and post–university education.