The aim of this publication is an attempt to define national identity and a sense of nurses’ national identity in the theoretical perspective. The authors will evaluate selected elements on which the analyzed terms focus. The inspiration for this analysis is to determine concepts mentioned above in the context of changing socio-cultural reality and economic migrations. They affect larger and larger socio-vocational groups, including the environment of nurses and midwives, and these particularly long-term dislocations are not without impact on the understanding of national identity. The analysis presented in this article raises the question of axiological correlates of national identity as well as the sense of national identity. Changes that we witness take place in almost every walk of human life. The growing phenomenon of cross-border and transculturalism, which are the result of globalization, among others, make the contemporary social world become the world of one nation. According to literature analysis, representatives of various professional groups, including health professionals, recognize their chances for better wages or improved working conditions in those changes. Therefore, there is a need to modify or redefine many concepts including national identity, European identity or the sense of national identity, as well as the need to reveal new, more comprehensive aspects of the phenomenon of identity.

Key words: national identity, sense of national identity, economic migrations, nurses.