Sleep is a basic human physiological need that affects the overall quality of life. Bad sleeping habits affect a person's daily psychophysical functioning. Sleep quality and habits change throughout life and are specifically related to a person's overall lifestyle. Healthcare professionals should be educated that lack of sleep and fatigue endanger their own safety and increase the risk of mistakes in everyday and professional life. The aim of this research is to examine the habits and quality of sleep of Nursing students at the Faculty of Health Studies in Rijeka in order to make students aware of the level of sleep quality and to become more familiar with the topic of sleep itself, which is very important in the work of Bachelor of Nursing, considering that it belongs to the category of satisfaction basic physiological needs. The research was conducted at the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Rijeka during 2023. 106 first-, second- and third-year undergraduate nursing students participated in the research. Students of both genders, different ages, years of study and study status (full-time, part-time) are included. The questionnaire used for the research consisted of three parts and was created using Google forms. The research results showed that hypotheses 1 and 3 were accepted because there were no significant differences in the results. Hypothesis 2 was rejected due to the absence of a significant difference in the quality of sleep between full-time and part-time nursing students, while hypothesis 4 was partially accepted due to the fact that students take a weekend later, but do not go to sleep later compared to weekdays, as was assumed in the hypotheses 4.