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Emotional Intelligence is considered as an important characteristic of nurses that can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence and knowledge use in practice.

The study is aimed to determine nursing students' critical thinking disposition and emotional intelligence in an academic year.

A longitudinal design.

The focus population of this longitudinal study consists of 197 freshman students studying at a faculty of nursing.

Asymmetrical cluster sampling method was used to determine sample group and all the students registered in the first year were included in scope of the study. Information Form, California Critical Thinking Disposition Scale and Emotional Intelligence Assessment Scale were used for data collection. SPSS version 11.5 was used for data analysis.

Nursing students have a low level of …