Silva Demoro Mondini, Cleide Carolina daKowal Olm Cunha, Isabel CristinaTrettene, Armando dos SantosBertoncello Fontes, Cassiana Mendes [UNESP]Bachega, Maria IreneRavagnani Cintra, Flavia Maria2020-12-102020-12-102020-01-01Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem. Brasilia Df: Assoc Brasileira Enfermagem, v. 73, n. 4, 7 p., 2020.0034-7167http://hdl.handle.net/11449/195480Objectives: to identify the knowledge of nursing professionals about leadership models and evaluate the authentic leadership profile among them. Methods: analytical study, conducted between August and December 2015, involving 84 nursing professionals working in a public and tertiary hospital. We used two instruments: Sociodemographic Questionnaire with questions about leadership and the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire. Results: both nurses and nursing technicians were unaware of authentic leadership. Both pointed to communication, planning, and organization as competencies of the leader (n = 58, 95%). Regarding the authentic leadership profile, we observed that the score was high among nurses and low among technicians. Holding a leadership position and professionally upgrading has positively influenced the highest-profile of authentic leadership. Conclusions: nurses demonstrated to know behavioral leadership, while nursing technicians showed knowledge about situational leadership. Nurses had a high score of authentic leadership behaviors, while nursing technicians had a low score, but we found no significant difference between them. Holding a leadership position and professionally upgrading has positively influenced the highest profile of authentic leadership.7engLeadershipNursingNursing TechniciansCompetenceOccupational NursingArtigo10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0888S0034-71672020000400157WOS:000544662000018Acesso abertoS0034-71672020000400157.pdf