Objective To understand the current situation of death education needs among newly recruited nurses, and to analyze its influencing factors, so as to provide reference for hospital managers conducting death education training for newly recruited nurses. Methods A total of 387 newly recruited nurses from 11 hospitals in Hebei Province were selected by convenience sampling method in July and August 2021, then they were investigated using a general information questionnaire, the Death Education Needs Scale, the Death Attitude Profile-Revised Scale, and the Templers Death Anxiety Scale. Results The participants′ total score of death education needs was 171.76±40.83. Death education needs was positively correlated with positive death attitude and death anxiety (P<0.01 for both) , and it was negatively correlated with negative death attitude (P<0.01). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that, educational background, hospital grade, attitude to nursing work, death education in school, death attitude and death anxiety were the influencing factors of death education needs (P<0.01 for all), which could explain 67.6% of the total variation. Conclusion Newly recruited nurses′ death education needs is at a high level, and it is affected by multiple factors. The hospital managers should provide personalized and diversified death education and training support on the premise of improving newly recruited nurses′ death response ability, so as to improve their death-related knowledge reserve and accumulation in multiple ways and levels, and thus enhance the quality of nursing services.