Background: Slums Background: Caring behavior is critical and crucial for nursing
practice and the disposition toward critical thinking is required for an effective and competent
quality patient care. Aim: examine the relationship between staff nurse's caring behavior and
disposition toward critical thinking in intensive care units. Design: descriptive correlational
design was utilized in this study. Study was carried out in medical critical care units at new kaser
El Ainy hospital. Subjects: Convenient sample of staff nurses (No=70) who were working in the
selected critical care units was constituted the study sample. Tools: two tools were used for data
collection: California critical thinking disposition Inventory and caring behavior inventory.
Results: The study findings conclude that there was no correlation between total caring behavior
and total critical thinking. Recommendations: It is recommended that nursing education should
emphasize a curriculum related to caring behavior to enhance nursing student's disposition
toward critical thinking. The nurse leaders should act as a role model in demonstrating caring
behavior, as well as using critical thinking skills including being a problem solver and decision
maker