Objective: The research was conducted to determine the evaluation of the situations of protecting and maintaining patient privacy of intensive care nurses. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted on nurses (n=202) working in the intensive care units of a university hospital between September-December 2020. The data were collected using “Nurse Identification Form” and “Patient Privacy Scale (PPS)”. Descriptive statistics, Kruskal-Wallis H test and Mann-Whitney U test were used in data analysis. Results: The mean age of the nurses participating in the study was 27.50±4.01, most of them were female (78.2%), single (71.8%) and undergraduate (63.4%). 56.4% of the nurses worked in internal intensive care units and 55.4%worked as intensive care nurses for 1-4 years. Almost all of the nurses considered patient privacy as confidentiality of personal information (91.4%) and body confidentiality (92.4%). Those who think that patient privacy is violated are 90.1% in the intensive care unit where they work. The nurses' mean total score on PPS was 4.48±0.53, and there was a significant difference between their PPS scores according to their education level (p0.05). Conclusion: Intensive care nurses a high level of attention to the protection and maintenance of patient privacy. It is recommended to organize in-service training in order to increase the observance of patient privacy in intensive care units.