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Purpose: This research was done to identify the factors that influence the career choice of nursing students. Method: The study was conducted between 1 and 30 May 2016. The universe of research was formed by 750 students who studied at a High School of Health, and 501 students who accepted their sampling to participate in the study. In the collection of data, the indicative characteristics prepared by the researchers have been used in the form and the scale of career choice in Nursing. In the assessment of the data, the SPSS 20.0 program was used, the analysis of the average, percentage, independent groups t test was applied. Results: The average age of students is 20.82±1.68, 66.9% of them are girls. 65.7 per cent of the nursing professions were selected voluntarily and 52.3 per cent were the first preference. The majority of students were satisfied with the 74.3 percent part, 77.6 percent accepted the nursing profession and 67.3 percent did not want to change the part. The difference between the student's department change wishes and occupation adoption conditions and the occupation selection scale in nursing is the low dimension of the occupational suitability score while p= is significantly found. There was no significant difference between the relative variables and the sub-dimensional score average p>0,05 . When the distribution of the measurements according to gender was studied, the first three expressions that were effective in the choice of a career in both gender were, respectively, “I’ve always wanted to help people 36.4%, “People around me say I’m going to be a good nurse 30.2%” and “I think I’m not going to be unemployed in nursing 26.2%” respectively. Result: From the research findings, students can be said that they adopted the nursing profession and found it suitable for them.

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