The purpose of this study is to identify the factors which influence nursing teachers' professional identity by focusing nursing teachers'backgrounds. Questionnaires were returned by mail from 327 nursing teachers, and the findings are as follows :

1)The factors which influence nursing teachers' professional identity are sex, age, teaching experience, will to continue teaching, and whether they have a role model as a nursing teacher.

2)The teaching experience influences nursing teachers'professional identity more than the will to continue teaching.

3)The male teachers tend to have a lower sense of nursing teachers' professional identity than the female teachers, because the male teachers are younger, have less teaching experiences, and have difficulty in finding a role model of the same gender. It is necessary to arrange and maintain a good work environment, and for teachers to participate in training and doing research, in order to motivate them to continue teaching and to elevate their professional identity.

This study's purpose is to clarify awareness of the nursing profession among the student nurses in N college by observing its change with time and influential factors.

Several survey proved a dominant tendency of their awareness that nursing is a profession of "responsibility", or of "everlasting learning", or of "self development" and of "worth doing". This indi cates that they capture nursing as socially acknowledged job. Still 16% of them were not interested in high salary even at their graduation time, which shows their incentive to money is relatively low.

According to promotion, the value of nursing, like "asserting oneself" or "ability of judgment", became more recognized, while "work worth doing" decreased. This change indicates that some condition might have worked to spoil their will.

The more awareness score level increase, the stronger students are motivated by senior nurse's awareness of profession through any of valuable experience with patients.