PURPOSE: The purpose of this research is to determine whether there is distinction in attitude of nurses about nursing in general, roles and standings of the nurses between healthcare providers and in public depending on the level of education, age, years of experience and working place of nurses (primary health care, inpatient health care) SUBJECTS: The research was conducted from 15 of March to 15 of April 2016. People who took part in this research (about 207) were the nurses who are employed in Krapina – Zagorje County, 106 of them work in secondary health care (Zabok General Hospital) and 91 are from primary health care, only 10 of them didn't reply about their working place. METHODS: In the research was used an anonymous questionnaire that consisted of two parts. The first part of the survey contains demographic statistics while the second part consists of 15 statements of the subjects which they answered based on Likert’s scale from 1 to 5. The results were processed using a method of descriptive statistics and a chi-squared test. OUTCOME: 99, 5% of the subjects that work in secondary healthcare think that the salaries are small and not appropriate for the job they do, 96, 9% of the bachelors think that nurses should focus on improving in their job, 63% of nurses that have less than 20 years of experience think they should work abroad. The most proud on their occupation are the nurses that work in primary healthcare which includes 97, 7% of them.