The objective of this study was to know how graduation students from nursing school perceive their quality of life. The approach used was the qualitative mode. The data were collected through individual interviews with five students: to you what means having quality of life; report about personal experiences or experiences that you have observed in your daily routine as a student, about aspects that you consider may promote or not your quality of life. The theme analysis of these speeches made it possible to rescue main situations pointed as those that promote quality of life were: extra curricular experiences; the relationship professor-student; the relationship among the students. The main aspects pointed as those that do not promote quality of life were: the feeling of not being welcome by professors and field nurses; lack of integration with the team and students from other courses in the campus; the excessive overload for the student who besides studying also works. It is education represents the main strategy to implement effective measures for providing quality health care.
Nursing; Quality of life; Nursing students; Nursing education