The study was conducted to identify the perception of nursing students towards nursing. A
purposive sample of 108 students affiliated to the nursing department in AL Dawadmi Faculty of
Applied Medical Sciences, female branch, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia, was included in the
study. Students were selected from six different levels. A descriptive cross sectional study, Self
Administered Questionnaire was used for data collection. It comprised three parts. The study was
conducted at the beginning of the second semester of the academic year 2013-2014 Students. Study
findings indicated that the highest percentage (90%) of the study subjects perceived nursing as a
human profession, followed by (83%) of them perceived the nursing profession as a significant
profession in patient recovery. the majority (78.7%) of the study subjects felt proud, about (19.4%)
were defensive about nursing. While smallest percentages (.9%) of them were, shy. The study
recommends conducting further studies on the perception of the student nursing in other different
regions in king Saudi Arabia and policy makers in higher education consider other factors such as
students' gender and choice for the specialty