ABSTRACT
Nursing is the largest group of health system, possessing considerable potential power that could be influential on the quality of health care services system. One of the important aspects of the development of nursing education and promotion of nursing strategies is a positive attitudeof nursing students. The present study was determine the attitude and perception toward the nursing profession.A cross-sectional study design was used. 496 nursing students from School of Nursing, HSUM,Ach, Etugen, Nursing Faculty, Ulaanbaatar university and Enerel medical institute were involved in this study using a nursing professional attitude and perception questionnaire. 5,65% of participating 496 nursing students were (n=28) male, and 94,35% (n=468) were female. 64% (n=316) of them studies for a bachelor degree, and 36% (180) for a diploma in nursing. Most of them or 85,28 % students have evaluated this profession is the most responsibility. And72,58% of them think after graduating will be that very satisfied. 86,09 % nursing students think that is very pleasure profession for helping patients. In generally these results had showed that most students had positive attitude toward their profession but we have revealed that 40,9% (203) of nursing students wanted to change theirfield.
