Nurse’s occupation is a tough competition, where the performance of professional tasks often comes to tend to the social problems of others. Since nurses are expected to the highest possible quality of services, but also empathy. Especially aid to people affected by social pathology requires high competence of members of the profession, to the integration of people affected by the pathology society. Receiving effective assistance by the competent public health nurse can act as a buffer that is able to protect a person against some additional consequences of ill health. Preparing nurse in the system of professional education to work in families affected by social pathology should provide knowledge and skills relevant to the care of the functions. Have been analyzed selected aspects of motivation to work, social skills, choice of occupation, educational activities in the legal profession. Th rough a survey of people who work professionally nurse has been obtained about the level of skills of nurses in the implementation of professional tasks.