Opinions of nurses / technicians on keeping the professional nursing secrets with respect to the development of information technology OBJECTIVES: To examine the opinions of nurses and technicians employed in the General County Hospital Pozega on keeping the professional nursing secrets. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: The cross-sectional study involved 155 participants. As an instrument an anonymous questionnaire with 20 questions was used and created for the purpose of this research. Categorical data were presented as absolute and relative frequencies. Numerical data were described as mean and standard deviation in the case of distribution following normal, but in other cases the median and interquartile range. Differences of categorical variables were tested by chi-squared test and Fisher exact test. Differences of normally distributed numerical variables between the two independent groups were tested by Student's t test. RESULTS: The results show that third of the respondents do not have sufficient knowledge about professional secrecy. To colleagues at work 26 (16.8 %) respondents lend their official access data, and 19 of them (12.3 %) leave it in a visible place. When it comes to differences in education, there were found two differences. Nurses with secondary education consider in significant percentage that retelling of professional secrecy beyond the health care team is allowed, and significantly more participants of higher or university education agrees or completely agrees with the statement that during completing their profession nurse can detect family and others certain facts about the patient. CONCLUSION: From the results it can be concluded that the nurses are familiar with the problem of keeping the nursing professional secret, but they are not sufficiently educated on all the elements of sanctioning violations of statutory rights of patients as either violations of basic moral and ethical standards of nursing.