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Target: Turgut Özal Medical Center TÖTM operated as an identifying for the purpose of studying the critical thinking trends of nurses working in the TÖTM hospital.Termination and method: Study Turgut Özal Medical Center TÖTM operated in the reporting and non-licensed, 58 nurses who accept voluntarily to participate in the research. The data was collected between November 2013 and January 2014. The data collection used a personal information form consisting of 7 questions and the California Critical Thought Trend Scale. The statistical analysis of the data obtained in the study, using SPSS16, was evaluated by the calculation of frequency, percentage, arithmetic average and standard deviations.Discussions: The majority of the nurses involved in this study consisted of 51.7 percent nurses aged 18-25 years. In terms of the service period in the profession, the vast majority is 63.8 per cent between 1-5 years. In addition, 79.3 percent of nurses have the knowledge of what the critical thinking concept is, while 91.4 percent have the knowledge of what the educational status is. What is the concept of critical thinking? 30.2 percent of nurses said they learned from university courses, while 45.3 percent said the events in the business environment affected their critical thinking. According to the critical thinking tendency scale, the analytical thinking score average is 46.15±5.53, the open thinking score average is 44.13±9.02, the curiosity score average is 41.77±4.72, the self-confidence score average is 30.24±5.18, the correct analysis ability score average is 24.74±4.81, the systematic score average is 23.82±2.95. The California Critical Thinking Trend Scale average score was 210.85.The result: The study found that nurses had insufficient critical thinking due to the negative effects of their working conditions. The number of nurses working 40 hours a week is expected to increase their critical thinking trends if training is organized to critical thinking.

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