Describe and analyze the attributes of the nurse competencies in caring of students since the manager look of educational institutions.Qualitative descriptive-exploratory study. Seven principals of educational institutions of Trujillo (Peru) participates in a non-structured interview during the first semester of 2016 and the analysis of oral discourse was used.Empirical categories: The nurse in the promotion of educational community health; The nurse in the prevention of the educational community illness; The student nurse articulating health - education in the everyday life of students.This study contributes to the conceptual support of the competencies of the student nurse for the intersectoral health - education action and the setting-up of health with students in the educational institutions.