Introduction:

Management is a fundamental activity of the organization of work and has as a challenge, to achieve the sustainability of care, in the professional context of Nursing. This professional assumes its management as a complex process, which manifests the need for an evaluative analysis, in the theoretical and methodological aspects, which require the discipline and the health system.

Objective:

To systematize the term management in the context of Professional Nursing.

Methods:

Systematic bibliographic review of works published during the years 2010 to 2020, selected during the months January to April 2021. Recognized keywords in DeCS and Boolean operators were used: "Human Resource Management" AND "Organization" OR "Administration" AND "Hospital Administration" AND "Nursing Care" OR "Nursing Services". The search was carried out in the databases: Dialnet, Scielo, Índex, Redalyc, Medigraphic. The PRISMA flowchart was used to favor the formulation of the search maneuver. The guiding question was structured through the PICO methodology, whose name comes from the English Patient, Intervention, Comparation, Outcome. The systematization favored the interpretation of the referents and results of the organization of scientific knowledge and the collated bibliography.

Conclusions:

The varied similarity of criteria and relevance of integration and fusion of the Nursing management process in various areas of knowledge in the specialty is recognized, with a view to improving the management activity, in correspondence with the social purpose and the results, tempered to the demands of the health system at the different levels of care.

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