The study is focused on nursing workers' education and the relationship with the daily work. It was developed with the purpose of analyzing the nurses's views on the relationship between educational activities for workers and work processes of nurses, and the possibilities for change in this relationship in perspective for integration of health, of continuing health education and teamwork concepts which constitute the theoretical framework. In the field research were carried out as follows: 22 semi-structured interviews with nurses from two hospitals, 14 in educational hospital and 8 in the public hospital. The subjects were selected using the snowball technic, starting with the nurse area manager at each hospital. The results showed that both hospitals nurses work processes is composed by two complementary dimensions: management and care. The first activities are mostly of human resource management and, second, the nursing care systematization. However, in educational hospital the nurse's work in nursing care systematization refers to the care implementation and care management and in public hospital, just care management. In both services, we found a close relationship between work processes and educational activities nursing workers, however of instrumental character, technical; though nurses have the expectation that the educational activities be done by the educational area. We identified opportunities for change in relations between the work processes and educational activities, in experiments aimed at participatory management and teamwork, but a weak presence of thematizing completeness and continuing health education. It is needed to change the assistencial model and educational activities for workers in hospitals, in view of the comprehensive health care in addition to addressing the biological, also the dimensions of social, cultural and emotional.