Introduction. School community nurses make up professional staff within the teaching and upbringing environment. Their work is typified by considerable autonomy and responsibility for making decisions concerning issues within the scope of student healthcare and school safety. Recently numerous substantial changes have taken place in nurses’ work organization, forms of employment, and in the field of tasks and duties, all of which affect parents’, students’, and nurses’ satisfaction with the work which is being done.

A research was aimed at evaluating work satisfaction levels for nurses working in the teaching and upbringing environment.

Material and method, results, discussion. The research was carried out among 105 school nurses from the Lublin region. Data analysis shows nurses to be deeply aware of their autonomy and professional competence, however, nurses are also disappointed at being economically underprivileged. It is worrying that a large number of interviewees claim their work does not allow them to achieve financial security