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Nursing is an occupation which leads to high degree of stress. Increased job expectation, work overload, inability to cope up, lack of social and administrative support are some factors contribute to growing occupational stress among nurses. Current study was undertaken with an objective to Study on the level of Stress, among nurses working in Intensive Care Unit, New Delhi, India. The standardized scale Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) was used to assess level of stress among nurses working in Present study includes Liver Coma Intensive Care Unit (LICU), Transplant Intensive Care Unit (TICU), Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and High Dependency Units (HDU) as a part of Intensive Care Units. Result showed that moderate level of stress was present among 23.95% of nurses; low stress was seen among 76.04% of nurses and none had high level of stress. It was evident that factors caused high stress was death and dying followed by work overload. The factors that caused low level of stress among nurses were lack of support (19.00%) followed by conflict with physicians (19.06%).