[Process of management work and process of nursing in the perspective of professors of management in nursing].

This article analyzes how nursing management lecturers articulate nurses' management work process with the nursing process. The study was developed upon the theoretical references on the health and nursing work process and management in nursing, using case study methodology. Seven professors of a private university of the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, were interviewed. The results show a fragile articulation between management and care activities, with the predominance of an instrumental conception of management in nursing and considering nursing process as an application of its stages. It also evidences the absence of other dimensions of management, politics, and citizenship development, as well as an incipient presence of the communicative dimension. The dimensions of the management must be included in nursing management training, of management in nursing, as well as the processes of nursing, possibly allowing a strategic form of articulation.