Nurse Media Journal of Nursing e-ISSN: 2406-8799, p-ISSN: 2087-7811 https://medianers.undip.ac.id 12(2):151-159, August 2022 https://doi.org/10.14710/nmjn.v12i2.45075 Copyright © 2022, NMJN, e-ISSN 2406-8799, p-ISSN 2087-7811 ORIGINAL RESEARCH The Impact of Performance of Non-Nursing Tasks on the Attitudes of Nursing Students toward Nursing Profession Ibrahim Rawhi Ayasreh 1 , Ferial Hayajneh 2 , Rana Al Awamleh 1 1 Department of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Jerash University, Jordan 2 Department of Clinical Nursing, School of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Jordan Article Info Abstract Article History: Received: 4 March 2022 Revised: 17 June 2022 Accepted: 22 June 2022 Online: 31 August 2022 Keywords: Jordan; nursing profession; nursing students; registered nurses Corresponding Author: Ibrahim Rawhi Ayasreh Department of Adult Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Jerash University, Jordan Email: i.ayasreh@gmail.com ibrahim.ayasrah@jpu.edu.jo Background: Performing non-nursing tasks (NNTs) by registered nurses is considered as one of the most challenging issues faced by nursing sector worldwide. The negative impacts of nurses’ engagement in NNTs were not limited to nurses or clients, but also nursing students who train in clinical areas. Performance of NNTs is found to aggravate nurses’ confusion about their professional roles and identity. However, the impact of performance of NNTs on nursing students has not been yet studied. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the impact of witnessing performance of non-nursing tasks by registered nurses on nursing students’ attitudes toward the nursing profession. Methods: A descriptive comparative study was conducted from September 2021 to January 2022. A convenience sampling was used and 409 valid questionnaires were obtained from Jordanian nursing students who were at least in their second academic year and had completed at least one clinical training period in one of the clinical settings. Attitude Scale for Nursing Profession was used to explore the participants’ attitudes toward the nursing profession. Descriptive statistics and independent t-test test were used for data analysis. Results: The results revealed that approximately 48% of the participants witnessed performance of NNTs by registered nurses during their clinical training. Student participants who witnessed performance of NNTs (M=154.4, SD=17.5) showed significantly less positive attitude toward the nursing profession than those who did not witness (M=157.4, SD=12.2), t(407)=-2.03, p=0.007). Conclusion: Around half of student participants witnessed performance of NNTs by registered nurses during clinical training. Performance of NNTs had a significant effect on nursing students’ attitudes toward nursing profession. Appropriate measures should be prior to clinical training to enhance nurse students’ awareness about professional scope of nursing profession. How to cite: Ayasreh. I. R., Hayajneh, F., & Al Awamleh, R. (2022). The impact of performance of non-nursing tasks on the attitudes of nursing students toward nursing profession. Nurse Media Journal of Nursing, 12(2), 150-159. https://doi.org/10.14710/nmjn.v12i2.45075 1. Introduction Performing non-nursing tasks (NNTs) by registered nurses is considered as one of the most challenging issues faced by nursing sector worldwide (Hammad et al., 2021). Registered nurses’ engagement in NNTs is the focus of many previous studies in which NNT is defined as any action that registered nurses perform out of scope of nursing practice (Palese et al., 2019), and/or not related to direct client’s care (Bekker et al., 2015; Hammad et al., 2021). Such NNTs include - but are not limited to – clerical tasks, delivering or retrieving food trays, transferring stable patients (Grosso et al., 2019), supply and order management, cleaning clients’ rooms (Bekker et al., 2018), and answering phone calls (Palese et al., 2019). Grosso et al. (2019) conducted a qualitative study to explore NNTs as experienced by nurses and found that NNTs involve three categories of activities: those that require less education (such as those performed by healthcare assistant), those that require same level of education (such as those performed by physiotherapists), and those that requires higher education as compared to nurses (such as those performed by physicians). Carrying out duties outside the job description of registered nurses has been found to have deleterious effects on the public reputation of nursing profession and the quality of care provided to clients (Park & Hwang, 2021). In a study conducted by Bekker et al. (2015), a positive