This work was developed by the research of terms or concepts in virtual magazines or electronic media. The objective was to obtain the information of management and administration definitions and, at the same time, perform the interpretation of data and criticizing each of the settings, contrasting them with nursing knowledge, since these are often forged within the business. It was used a methodology which is based in constructs, applied to re-educate terminological deficiencies. By analyzing each of these definitions, it was identified that the management and the administration have similarities in their meanings, when applied can be easily confused, while having similarities in the praxis, they don't perform the same actions as management is the strategy and administration is execution. In this way, the results obtained were two concepts applicable to the nursing discipline, concluding that every discipline requires the support and the knowledge of other areas.
Nursing; Knowledge; Management