This article presents the results of an exploratory study conducted with 124 students from first and second half of nursing at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá headquarters, during the year 2007. The aim of the study was to provide inputs to guide the subjects of Context of Health and Health in Colombia and its determinants for the first and second half of the career, from knowledge about the motives behind the students to choose this career and who have doubts about it. This approach allowed with these expectations and resolves to some extent the doubts raised by students. Based on the responses were in singht that the main motivation for the study of nursing as a profession is represented in the vocation and service, which reaffirms its position as a science, and as a fundamental purpose of caring individuals and colectives; situation consistent with the purpose that guides the career at the University. The main doubts about the same fear to confront situations were related to direct care to patients, and death and urgency, among others, all considered inhterent in the time they are students, by which its resolution is expected to achieve on a regular basis as soon in consolidation and advancing understanding of the curriculum and in addressing its work in practice. The current curriculum guidance agrees in general to propose answers to the expectations of students and calrification of some of the doubts, just as these in turn helped guide the emphasis of the subjects mentioned, providing both students and the teacher and the implementation of the curriculum that is conceived as a dynamic process.