“…Therefore, you need continuous updating, not restrictively learning acquired during undergraduate studies, developing and improving skills and competences, such as the constant search for improvement of knowledge, effective communication, problem solving and good interpersonal skills.² Currently leadership has become a challenge at the same time it becomes a necessity. To exercise leadership competence is needed honesty, humility, self-discipline and commitment to professional success, the monitoring of operations and performance to the efficient use of resources, helping to resolve personal conflict and generating confidence in the team.³ Thus, lead may not reflect only authority, power and, much less, the adoption of authoritarian attitudes, but need, above all, involve the ability to influence people's attitudes, behavior and emotions, motivating them to perform their tasks in order to achieve excellence at work 1,4,5 which, in the context of nursing work process, involves ensuring the quality of care conciliating organizational objectives with the needs of the nursing staff. 4 Thus, the nurse in the exercise of his functions needs guide himself not only by technical-scientific and instrumental knowledge, but also by relational skills in order to achieve the objectives.…”