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INTRODUCTION: This study was conducted to determine the innovation characteristics of nursing students and the affecting factors. METHODS:The study was conducted using a "Data Collection Form" and "Individual Innovativeness Scale" with face to face interviews with nursing students of a Faculty of Health Sciences. The Cronbach alpha of the scale was found as 0.76. The value p lt;0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. Results: The average age of the students was 20.48±1.80 years and 31.9% of were first grade students. It was found that 65.4% of the students graduated from anatolian high schools and similar schools, 70.1% of the students had nuclear family and 66.5% had middle income. Participants were found as the late majority 42.6%, laggards 34.3%, the early majority 19. 8%, early adopters 2.5%, and 0.8% innovators according to their innovation characteristics. It was determined that as the students’ number of siblings, preference order of nursing and the order of birth in their family increased, their level of innovation decreased. DISCUSION AND CONCLUSION: It was found that most of the nursing students were late majority and laggards, and only a few of them were innovative.

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