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It is place.   Purpose: This study was conducted with the aim of determining the difficult patient perception and communication skills of the Health Higher School students.   Method: The research is done as a identification. The research was carried out at Celal Bayar University Manisa Health High School in October-December 2014 after the Ethics Board approval and institution permission was received. The universe of the research consists of students studying in the Department of Nursing and Ebelics of the Higher School of Health and having clinical application experience. In the study, the universe in the selection of sample is determined by the selection of sample layer of a certain sample selection. The study was conducted by 322 students. Data, information form and communication skills are collected through the inventory form. In the assessment of the data, the percentage, the Kruskall-Wallis test, the Mann-Whitney U test were used.   The average age of students is 20.87±1.62 (18-30). 86,0% of students are girls, 14,0% men, 96,3% single, 74,8% nursing department students, 25.5% abortion department students. 83.5 percent of students said they had difficult diseases. More than 47.5 percent of students said they had trouble reading the story. “Who is the hard sick?” The number of students who responded to the question is 32.1 per cent of those who think they are unconnected patients.“What are the characteristics of hard sick?” Students said that 17.1 percent of them had a communication problem. In the study, students said they had difficulty communicating with many male patients. The 18-20-year-old group said that students were forced to communicate with older patients and male patients, the 21-30-year-old group said that students were forced to communicate with children.   Results: According to the findings, nursing and abortion students have difficulty communicating with difficult patients, their communication skills and difficult patient perceptions have an impact on their communication with difficult patients. Keywords: difficult patient, student patient communication, communication skills.