[Students' and graduates' perceptions of the nursing profession]

In recent years, our healthcare system has been changing, with medicine becoming increasingly modern and technical. As a student nurse, you begin to build your professional identity. Like all individuals, they are nourished by different representations, which will play a part in this development. Professional identity is in a constant state of flux, influenced as it is by the vagaries of personal and professional life. The study presented below sought to identify the representations of the profession and the founding elements of identity construction among nurses at the start of their studies.