Aim: This study was carried out with the aim of determining the individual innovativeness characteristics according to nurses' gender roles as well as individual innovativeness characteristics and affecting factors as well as individual innovativeness characteristics according to gender roles. Methods: This study which is cross-sectional type was carried out from January 1st to February 28th 2018 at the university hospital in a province in north-eastern Turkey with 222 nurses out of 580, who agreed to participate in the study. Results: It was determined that among the masculine role adopters, The Individual Innovation Scale of Opinion Leadership and Risk Taking subscales average scores were higher, that the Resistance to Change subscale scores were lower, the scores of the Opinion Leadership and Risk Taking subscales of those who have adopted the feminine role are less while the Resistance to Change subscale scores were higher and the difference between the mean scores was found to be statistically significant (p <0.05). In addition, it was found that those who adopted the androgen role had a higher total score than the others in terms of Individual Innovation Scale (p <0.001). It was determined that nurses adopting feminine role approached innovation with a more traditional point of view and that the difference between the was found to be statistically significant (p <0.001). Conclusion: It was found out that the majority of the nurses in the scope of the study, adopt the androgen role. They have low level of resistance to change and high level of individual innovativeness in general. It was determined that the androgen role adopters have higher level of innovativeness and that feminine role adopters approach in a traditional manner to wards innovations