A research on the construction of management knowledge and the conformation of nursing competencies to take charge of and conduct management work in health and nursing appoints that nursing education and praxis should move among work processes in the caregiving, management, educative and scientific research dimensions. Thus, nurses can assume their role as articulators in the system, in health services and care, from the perspective of comprehensiveness, of teaching-service integration, attending to the population’s demands and building routes to put the health system in practice(11).