The present paper describes the result of a questionnaire survey designed to collect the adjectives associated with 4 key concepts: that is “nurse, ”“doctor, ”“patient, ” and “hostipal.” The subjects were nursing school students: 2-year course students (n=36) and 2-year part-time course students (n=39), nursing junior college students (n=40), and other junior college students majoring in social science fields (n=40). The result indicated that the adjectives strongly associated with “nurse” were tender, smart, clever, feminine. Those associated with “doctor” were found to be clever, rich, tender, terrible, and those associated with “patient” were alone, weak, pitiful, and lonely, while those associated with “hospital” were smell of disinfectant, white, terrible, and cold. These adjectives were considered appropriate for meaning respective concept that will have an important influence on the process of occupatianal development among nurses.