The aim of nursing education is to gain professional knowledge and skills. Fundamentals of nursing (fundamentals of nursing) nursing nursing knowledge and skills based on scientific principles of behavior taught to students in the course is the first professional course. In this course, nursing students acquire theoretical knowledge and improve the skills of transformation, communication and empathy skills, systematic care, responsibility and self-confidence. This research in qualitative design was conducted with 15 students taking the Nursing Principles course from March to April 2017. What are the competencies that you want the "Nursing Principles Course" to create for students participating in the study with the unselected sampling method? questioned. The data were collected under 4 main categories and 10 themes: "Quality Training in Psychosocial Development", "Development of Communication Techniques", "Understanding of Basic Philosophy and Roles of Nursing" and "Knowledge and Skill Training in Nursing Care".Qualitative Education in terms of Psychosocial Development; wanting to gain problem solving ability while giving nursing care, wanting to break the prejudices by adopting profession, to be able to complete self-confidence and identity formation, to learn to communicate with the patient, to gain empathy skills, to collaborate with other disciplines. In the "Understanding and Understanding of Basic Philosophy and Roles of Nursing", the desire to love nursing is to treat the individual with a holistic approach, to be a good nurse and to increase the sense of devotion to the profession, and the knowledge and skill subcategory of Nursing Care; They stated that they wanted to learn all skills applications of nursing, to have different characteristics from other colleagues, and to be able to gain the ability to provide health education to healthy / sick individuals. The findings of the study revealed that the students who took the course of nursing course had clarified the expectation of the students and it was determined that appropriate results for the purpose of the course of nursing course were determined in the light of this information.