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Aim: Mindfulness which focusing on the experience of the present moment with an open curiosity and acceptance is one of the issues that affect the nursing care of nurses. This research was carried out to determining mindfulness levels of the nurses. Material and Methods: In this descriptive research, 207 nurses working at Kırıkkale University medical Faculty Hospital constituted the population. The research completed with 158 nurses during February to March in 2020. The data were obtained with the Personal Information Form and the Conscious Awareness Scale by the self-report method. For this research, institution and scale usage permission, ethics committee approval, and verbal consent from nurses were obtained. Personal Information Form and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale were applied to the nurses who agreed to participate in the research (n= 158). The significance test of the difference between the two means, one-way analysis of variance and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used in the analysis of the data. Results: The average age of the nurses (n=158) participating in the study is 32.38±7.36. 77.2% of the nurses are women, 72.2% are graduates of faculties/junior college, 63.3% are married, 50.6% of the nurses work in internal clinics and 74.7% nurses work with shift working status. The mean score of Mindful Attention Awareness Scale of the nurses participating in the research was 63.98±12.41. There was a statistically significant difference between average mindfulness scores of nurses when compared to their gender and shift working status (p<0.05). Conclusion: Mindfulness level of the nurses participating in this research are at a medium level. It is recommended to increase the mindfulness level of nurses with mindfulness training and exercises aimed at increasing mindfulness. In this research, it was found that there was a difference in mindfulness scores of nurses according to their gender and shift working status. This finding has been predicted by more extensive research.

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