The research deals with the quality of life at work - QLW of nursing teachers. The main goal is to point the meanings and the extenuating and enabling QLW processes, generating the health-sickness profile. The theoretical background was constituted by social determination and by content analysis of the interviews. QLW mainly means working conditions, professional identification and interpersonal relationship. In the health-sickness profile, the extenuating factors exceed the enabling factors
nursing; quality of life; occupational health; occupational diseases