Abstract
Objectives This study was to investigate the influence of critical thinking disposition and nursing professionalism on health information protection awareness by nursing students with clinical practice experience.
 Methods Data were collected using structured questionnaires from 124 3rd and 4th graders with clinical practice experience enrolled in nursing departments at two universities located in Chungbuk and Jeonnam. For the collected data, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple liner regression analysis were used using SPSS/WIN 25.0 statistical program.
 Results Critical thinking disposition had a statistically significant positive correlation with nursing professionalism (r=.607, p<.001) and health information protection awareness (r=.455, p<.001). Nursing professionalism also had a statistically significant positive correlation with health information protection awareness (r=.387, p<.001). As a result of multiple regression analysis, the factors significantly influencing the health information protection awareness were critical thinking disposition (β=.35, p<.001) and nursing professionalism (β=.18, p=.003), with a total explanatory power of 21.3% was.
 Conclusions The development and application of educational programs that can improve nursing students' critical thinking disposition and nursing professionalism, and various curricula should be operated.
 
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