Non-nursing tasks as experienced by nursing students: Findings from a phenomenological interpretative study.

Background: During their clinical learning experience, students are exposed to the nursing profession as a powerful structural reality, experiencing the so-called professional socialisation, a process recognised as the basis of professional identity. Inside this process, students progressively acknowledge their professional identity as being composed of several competencies and, among these, also non-nursing tasks.

Objectives: To explore non-nursing tasks in the context of nursing students' clinical learning experiences.