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Objective: To describe the perception of nursesabout managerial competencies in the hospital context. Method: A descriptive study performed in a hospital in the northwest of Paraná, Brazil, with data collected from 25 nurses. It was used an instrument composed of questions of sociodemographic characterization and focused on the perception about the importance of managerial competences in nurses' practice, being they leadership, communication, decision making and planning and organization. The answers were arranged in a Likert scale, in which the higher the score, the more indispensable the competence was considered. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: 76% of the participants were female, with a mean age of 35 years. The leadership domain obtained a score of 44.84 (SD ± 0.8), communication of 14.52 (SD ± 1.32), decision making of 16.12 (SD ± 3.2) and planning and organization of 17.24 (SD ± 1.56). All domains scored near the maximum score. Conclusion: Nurses perceive as indispensable the managerial competences determined for the training, in their professional practice in the hospital context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]