Life-long learning determines the possibilities of learning and improving the needs of all the citizens of the country. Health care personnel who have to improve their professional qualification are becoming active participants of this process. While associating to a common European nursing space, nurses are facing new requirements and this influences their professional competence. This is the reason why it is very important to find out how nurses improve their professional qualification considering the notions of life-long learning. The aim of this report is to reveal the features of nurses’ professional qualification in the context of life-long learning. According to the analysis of legal aspects of the development of nurses’ professional qualification, the professional development of this group of specialists is regulated by the state. It is as well formalized and inflexible. Incomplete national attitude towards adult learning suggests that the distribution of financial resources in health care system is not properly settled as far as the improvement of nurses’ qualification is concerned. It also causes restrictions of learning accessibility in social, financial and economical aspects. The data of the research has highlighted the salient problems that nurses face with. Among others, one is that the existing system of professional improvement is not adjusted to the implementation of notions of life-long learning. Nurses do not feel secure because of permanent changes in... [to full text]