Public perceptions of nursing have changed over the past in line with changes taking place within the profession. Therefore, public opinion has always been very incoherent and diverse. Apart from the nurses themselves, their portrayal and presence in the media have a great influence on the perception of the public. As a source of health information they are very rarely mentioned in the media. Looking at the situation in Croatian nursing, we do not find a better situation: lack of nurses, lower salaries, poor working conditions, invisibility in the media, a rare source of health information certainly leave a lot of room to improve the professional image. The aim of this study was to examine the population’s perception of nurses. In addition, they wanted to find out how much the public today encounters nurses in the media as some form of source of health information and how much this affects their choice of credible sources of health information. The research was conducted on a sample of 309 respondents. A customized version of the “National Survey of the Public about Nursing” questionnaire was conducted for the research, which was conducted via the Google form in July and the first part of August 2021. The results showed that the majority of respondents, 88% of them have a very or partially positive attitude towards nurses in society, and believe (95% of them) that nurses are very important in the health system. They mostly meet the profile of nurses with secondary education and know relatively well the scope of work of nurses of all levels of education. In the media (articles, television, newspapers or the Internet) the public rarely encounters nurses. Compared to the media as a source of health information, respondents attach more importance to nurses because they consider them to be a better source of information. The conclusion of the study is that nurses in the media as health educators are invisible and insufficiently present, so they need to be more active in the media.