The study was conducted as a cross-sectional research in order to identify entrepreneurial feelings and potentials with opinions on innovation in nursing education of nursing students. The population of the study includes 862 students having education in Gaziantep University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department in 2015-2016 Education period. It was planned to reach all universe so sampling was not taken. 554 students who agreed to participate in the study and conducted the questionnaires seamlessly were included in the survey. Data were collected with the questionnaire including socio-demographic characteristics, education and innovation correlation form and scale of entrepreneurial sense and potentials. Data were analyzed by using SPSS 18 software. When entrepreneurial feelings and potentials are compared with descriptive characteristics; the mean scores of males' risk-taking propensity, internal control feelings and entrepreneurial potential of those who spend most of their lives in the city center, super high school graduates' risk-taking propensity are statistically higher (p<0.05).When entrepreneurial potential and feelings and ideas related to innovation in nursing education are assessed; the mean scores of entrepreneurial potentials of those who state that issues related to nursing are discussed in their education, internal control feelings and entrepreneurial potential of those who follow the innovations occurring in the nursing field from nursing journals, risk-taking propensity of those who follow the innovations occurring in the nursing field from domestic and foreign resources, desire for independence of those who follow the innovations occurring in the nursing field from their teachers, conferences and seminars are significantly higher (p<0.05). Risk-taking propensity of those who think that the education they have partly includes the innovations occurring in the nursing field, desire for independence of those who think that their education doesn't include the innovations occurring in the nursing field, risk-taking propensity of those who state that their teachers teach the courses in a way that opens to innovations, internal control feelings and risk-taking propensity of those who state that they have education informed about innovations, risk-taking propensity of those thinking that having a traditional education in their nursing training, internal control feelings and desire for independence of those stating that their lessons don't include current issues, risk-taking propensity of those stating that modern approaches aren't discussed, risk-taking propensity of those thinking that practicing nursing lessons in nursing education are effective in contributing to their growing as individuals capable of generating ideas, risk-taking propensity of students who have not reached the level of thinking new things about nursing, entrepreneurial potentials of those being able to produce alternative ideas are significantly higher (p<0.05).