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Abstract Objective: This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of intensive care nurses about organ donation. Methods: This is a descriptive research, and was carried out in multi-center using the online google questionnaire between 01.06.2021 and 30.07.2021. 105 nurses participated in the study. The data of the research were collected with the "Nurse Information Form" and "Organ Donation Attitude Scale". Data were evaluated with descriptive statistics, chi-square or Fisher test, student t test, Mann-Whitney U test, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results: The mean age of the nurses was 28.22±6.6, the total professional experience was 6.11±6.57, the total intensive care experience was 3.54±4.58, and the average weekly working hours were 53.23±14.10. Most of the participants were female (80%), undergraduate (68.6%), single (69.5%), shift worker (81.9%), and working in the medical intensive care unit (79.1%). The proportion of nurses (22.9%) who stated that they had received education on organ donation and had an organ donation card (18.1%) was found to be low. According to the organ donation attitude scale of nurses, positive attitude score was high (106.36±13.9) and negative attitude score was low (43.53±19.40). It was seen that there was no statistically significant difference (p>0.05) between the nurses' attitudes towards organ donation and age, total professional and intensive care experience, average weekly working hours, gender, marital status, having a child, working order, status, intensive care unit, organ donation education and organ donation card status. Conclusion: It was determined that the volunteer attitudes of intensive care nurses about organ donation were strong, but those who had organ donation cards were very few.

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