Resumen:
Objetive: Identify the knowledge taht the nurses froma a hospital in Morelia, Michoacan have of the nursing process. Methodology: Not experimental, descriptive, correlational cross - sectional study. through sampling for convenience, they were interviewed 176 nurses of the Women´s Hospital of March to April of 2013. A questionnaire with 29 questions in Likert sacale was used. The dependability of the instrument obtained the coefficient alpha of Cronbach 0.831. Sociodemographic, labor and knowledge variables were explored in the Nursing Process. Contribution: with base to the results obtained in this study, the purpose is that the authority of the hospital drifts and execute intevention strategies for the education and the nurses continuous upgrade in the methodology of the discipline and to improve the quality of attention. (150 - 200 words)