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The article presents results from the project ?The Nurse's Conditions". As a star--ting point for the project two exploratory case studies were carried out, one at a public health centre in Denmark, where the work involves rehabilitation, and another in a hospital ward, where the work involves accelerated surgical procedures. The research indicates that within a hospital ward the profession of nursing is strongly centred in work involving treatment. The profession's strengths manifest themselves as great demands on the nurses' skills and the establishment of specialist functions reserved for nurses. A special nurses' role, ?the Logistics Coordinator", occupies a prominent position in the work of treatment. Conversely, the research indicates that the profession of nursing is weaker in rehabilitation work. There is less of a demand for nurses' skills in the health care centre, where patients primarily require health services from physiotherapists and dieticians. During the observation period the number of nurses was reduced in the healthcare centre, and the research indicates that nurses, compared to physiotherapists, had relative difficulties maintaining their profession's authority.

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