en پرستاری Nursing پژوهشي Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:2;"><strong>Background and Purpose</strong>: Career choice, one of life&rsquo;s most important decisions, can affect the future income level and related lifestyle and life quality. This study aims to determine the factors affecting the career choice among Turkish nursing students.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods</strong>: This is a cross-sectional study. The participants were 2778 nursing students of state universities from seven geographical regions of Turkey who were selected by drawing lots. A sociodemographic form and the vocational choices in entering nursing scale (VCENS) were used to collect the data. Mann-Whitney U test, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis test, and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The mean total score of the VCENS was high (101.41&plusmn;24.89). Regarding its subscales, the mean score of the congruence subscale (70.51&plusmn;20.83) was higher than the mean score of the survival subscale (30.9&plusmn;10.24). There were significant differences in the total score and subscales scores of the VCENS based on students&rsquo; age, gender, the study university, educational year, and family income status (P<0.05). Based on the reports, 65.2% of students voluntarily chose the department of nursing, 43.2% perceived the theoretical education as sufficient, and 35.4% perceived the practical/clinical education as inadequate.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The career choices of nursing students in Turkey differ according to the region. The high mean score of students in the congruence subscale indicates that they make a conscious choice. Most of them perceive that the practical/clinical education provided by universities is inadequate. Arranging classroom sizes by increasing the number of lecturers and screening their performance can help improve the current situation.</span></span></span></div> Career choice, Nursing students, Turkey 253 262 http://jhs.mazums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1073-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Burçin Selçuk burcinselcuk839@gmail.com 100319475328460012106 100319475328460012106 No Altınözü State Hospital, Hatay, Türkiye. Hatice Serap Koçak stasdemirmeister@gmail.com 100319475328460012107 100319475328460012107 Yes Department of Public Health Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Türkiye. Zeynep Güngörmüş gungormusz@yahoo.co.uk 100319475328460012108 100319475328460012108 No Department of Public Health Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gaziantep Islam Science and Technology University, Gaziantep, Türkiye.