Objectives:

To make known the work done by the nurses of the company of workers of the Military Administration according to the Instruction that regulate this trade. Show the categories of hospital nurses and define their administrative tasks and care for the sick.

Material and Methods:

Historical study conducted from the analysis of the “Instruction for military administration workers as nurses in military hospitals”, document regulated the work of the different offices that were in a military hospital, focusing on the functions of the senior nurse, servant nurse and ward warden.

Results:

The Instruction was divided into fifteen chapters, and in each one of them the norms of performance of the different existing trades in a military hospital were established. In chapters I, II and III, referring to nursing trades, their functions of supervision and management as well as care of the sick are established.

Conclusions:

This is a regulation of the work of nurses, who exercised the tasks assignable to the current Chiefs of Nursing and Supervisors, with considerable training for the time in administrative tasks and with adequate qualities for the care of the sick and injured.