This is a qualitative study with the objective to analyze the managemental actions developed by the nurses, implied in the health-desease process of the nursing workers. It was carried through in a university hospital and the citizens had been managers nurses of the Hospital. The results had shown that the nursing worker's health is determined by the form as the processes of work are organized in the Hospital. The transformation possibilities are organized in new forms to organize the work, privileging the development of the four dimensions of the management, with the adoption of management process and the investment in continued education that privileges the emancipation of the citizens.
hospital administration; management; nursing; occupational health