Introduction:
The essential goal of the nursing education is acquiring the clinical competency for safe care delivery to patients, especially in the internship period, the final phase of nursing education, that students are prepared for entry to clinic as newly graduated nurses. This study aimed to determine the nursing student`s competencies during the internship period.
Materials and Methods:
In this qualitative study, conventional content analysis was used.16 persons from different universities that participated to clinical education in internship period, interviewed semi-structured. Obtained data from participants was recorded and analyzed by Maxqda2007 software and themes were extracted inductively by 7-steps content analysis method.
Results:
During data analysis, one essential theme (humanistic patient-centered care) and 4 categories were developed: "humanistic view to patient, communication with patient and family, scientific care based on the patient needs and patient safety"
Conclusion:
We suggest that Special programs be taken in order to acquire humanistic patient-centered care competency in the internship period as the final time for the nursing students education.

Key words: competency, ethics, patient-centered care, content analysis, nursing student