[Nursing process in the ambulatory care of adults with arterial hypertension: concepts and contradictions].

This study deals with the health assistance phenomena in general, and the nursing assistance in particular, as it occurs in Hypertension League. Its main theoretical framework, supported by the historical and dialectical materialism, it the labour process theory and its elements: Finality, Object and Means/Instruments. The investigation reveals that the workers conceptions about their labour process express a reiterative, non-creative and non-reflexive praxis. The labour process of nursing assistance was reiterated with Mean to the medical labour process, and to be seem emptied of the an scientific knowledge.