Nursing students come to the profession with a variety of experiences and backgrounds, including those that involve living with or caring for someone with a mental illness. Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model highlights the importance of nurses' backgrounds and how they influence personal beliefs, biases, and clinical judgments, as well as intent to practice in a particular care setting. There has been little research conducted to understand how having a personal background of living with or caring for someone with a mental illness influences nursing students' experiences caring for a client with a mental illness and how these experiences may influence students' intent to practice in mental health settings in the future. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine clinical experiences of undergraduate nursing students in mental health settings who have personal backgrounds with mental health conditions.