Introduction: Ethics is a normative knowledge that has the purpose of guiding the actions of human beings. Care in its relation to ethics deals with responsible actions and moral relationships between people, motivated by achieving the care of their peers or their own. The ethical behavior of the nurse must be in relation to respect for life, dignity and rights of the human being. Objective: To determine the ethical behavior of the nursing professional from the perception of the social service student. Method: quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional approach, the sample was non-probabilistic for convenience, was made up of 58 students from the Universidad Veracruzana, faculty of nursing of Orizaba who were studying s...