Objective: Nursing undergraduate education is being re-evaluated and tried to be improved with the contributions of accreditation processes that have emerged in recent years. However, evaluations are mostly made on quantitative data, and it is not possible to understand some problems in depth and to evaluate the problems from the eyes of those who have experienced the process. The aim of this study is to reveal the views on nursing undergraduate education, the factors affecting undergraduate education, and to what extent the current undergraduate education supports nursing competencies.

Materials and Methods: This is a mixed-designed study. Participants consist of fourth-year students, faculty members and nurses working in the hospital, and nurses working in primary care. A Google survey form was created to obtain demographic characteristics, and qualitative interviews were conducted on the Zoom platform.

Results: Google survey was conducted with 274 participants, and four focus group interviews with 6-8 participants were accomplished. Nursing competencies, educational climate, recommendations for designing education, emotions, problems in on-the-job training, factors supporting nursing professionalism, and differences in nursing identity are the themes that emerged from qualitative data.

Conclusions: There is a need to increase of awareness-raising of the duties, responsibilities, and competencies determined in the national framework, and skills and attitudes development after undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education. Participants believe that the appropriate clinical climate has not been established to acquire them. Participants basically indicated the factors that negatively affect professionalism as heavy workload, forcing to work outside the responsibilities of their job, and hierarchical structure.