The present study had as objective the identification and analysis of knowledge production in the field of nursing management in the country, resulting from research conducted in the Master and Doctorate Programs as well as Ph.D, during the period of 1979-2000. The study sample was constituted of 138 Dissertations, 50 Doctoral Thesis and 10 PhD thesis that meant a total of 198 scientific productions. They were analyzed according to research areas in the Organizational field area. Results allowed us to visualize the distribution of that production in terms of theme, research area, decade, method, lines of thought adopted in such works, and geographic region. Results also allowed us to make considerations as to the trajectories, needs and research perspectives in Nursing administration.
Nursing research; Nursing administration research; Knowledge
