Conscience and empathy are emotional factors affecting the caregiving levels of nurses. This research aims to determine perceptions of conscience of nursing students, according to their empathy levels. Descriptive, cross-sectional, and descriptive research designs are used in this research conducted on nursing students in third and fourth grades studying at nursing departments of two State Universities in the east of Turkey. 376 students studying in the third and fourth grades of nursing departments of the mentioned two universities, formed the population of the research. The study has been completed with 286 students accepting to participate in the research, without forming a sample group. Data have been gathered through the Student Identification Data Sheet, Empathy Quotient (EQ), and Perception of Conscience Questionnaire (PCQ). The research determined that the average age of the students was 22.43 ±1.96, 61,1% were female, 94,7% were single, 65,3% were living in cities, 50,6 %were attending a state university, 60,4% freely chose their profession and 42,8% made their choices because of family pressure. The average total EQ points of the participants are 2.76±0.66 and the average of total PCQ points is 62.52±12.87. The research determined that there is a medium-level meaningful correlation positively, between averages of total and subscale points (p<0.001) of EQ and PCQ. It also determined that there is a medium-level meaningful correlation positively, between averages of total and subscale points of social skills and cognitive empathy subscales, along with PCQ total and subscale points (p<0.05). A medium-level meaningful correlation in a positive way, between averages of emotional reaction subscales along with PCQ total and sensitivity subscale points, has also been determined (p<0.001). This research has put forward average of EQ and PCQ points of the students, were at medium level. The research has also determined that consciousness perception increased parallel to an increase in empathy levels.