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Health care sector restructuring process that Poland is undergoing during last few years, extensively determines changes seen in whole health care sector. This applies also to nursing professionals. Direction of those, in relation to coming and anticipated dynamic growth of social needs in quantity and quality of health services not only in Poland, but a whole World, may and should be of concern. A need for an answer to a question, if it truly happens in practice and therefore formulate a proper conclusion, was a reason for following aim of this paper: an analysis and evaluate of changes in the structure of employment among nursing professionals, most of all in the context of increasing health care needs of Polish society.