Mindfulness is one of the important factors affecting the professional identity of Chinese higher vocational students. The purpose of this study is to explore the influence mindfulness on the professional identity of nursing students in higher vocational colleges in Shandong Province, China, under different background variables, with the social cognitive theory as the theoretical basis, to establish a research model. The students of nursing major in two vocational colleges in Shandong Province, China, were taken as the research object, and a questionnaire survey was by using a convenient sampling method. A total of 120 pre-test questionnaires were issued, and 115 questionnaires were actually recovered. Based the normal distribution of statistics, 4 invalid questionnaires were eliminated, and 111 valid questionnaires were valid. It is expected to issue 400 questionnaires. The expected research results are: mindfulness is significantly positively correlated with professional identity.