Abstract
Experience report on the theoretical-practical relationship of nursing administration experienced in a health unit. The objective was to report the experience of the teaching-learning process with a focus on the theoretical-practical relationship of nursing administration, aiming to identify and describe the situational diagnosis of the health unit and to outline solutions for the identified problems. It is a descriptive, narrative, experience report type study, referring to the vision and performance in the administration sub-area of a group of students of the Nursing course at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in a health unit located in the Zona North of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Based on the students' experience and interaction with the health unit environment, conformities and disharmony were noticed when associated with the findings of RDC No. 50, of February 21, 2002, and RDC No. 197, of December 26 de 2017. The participation of nurses attentive to the management processes, helps in increasing the quality of care provided, as well as in the care of users, in the optimization of available resources and in the reduction of unnecessary expenses.