Objective; This descriptive research was carried out to determine the views of nursing senior students about the nursing profession, their roles and the future of the profession. Material and Method: The study was conducted at a district vocational school of health in Ayd?n province, Turkey in the academic year 2018-2019 with 141 senior grade students of the Nursing Department. A questionnaire asking about the students’ socio-demographic characteristics and their opinions on the nursing profession was used to collect data. The data were analyzed using numbers, percentage distribution and the chi-square test. Results:. 19.9% of the participants reported that their ideal profession was nursing, 61.0% of them stated that they chose the nursing department by willingly. While 84.4% of the participants expressed concern about working life in the profession, 64.5% stated that they hoped that the working conditions would improve in the future. 66.0% of the participants stated that nursing is indispensable for personal and community health, 73.0% of them stated that it is a professional profession. Finally, 63.8% of the participants stated that the image of the nursing profession is bad in society, and 45.4% stated that their thoughts about nursing changed positively during nursing education. Conclusion: It was determined in this study that a large proportion of students had chosen the profession willingly, that ease of finding a job was a factor in their choice, that they thought working conditions in the profession would improve in the future, and that their perceptions of the profession had changed for the better during the course of their professional training.

Author Name: Nihal TA?KIRAN, Nurullah KALI, Esma Nur KIVRAK, Nisan TÜRKSEVEN, Gül Özlem YILDIRIM,

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Keywords: Nursing Profession, Nursing Student, Profession Roles; Future of Nursing,

ISSN: 2548-1215

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