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Nurses are the back bone of the hospital. Most of the times the major work load is being beared by the nurses working in hospital, they play the magical role into the outcome of the treatment. Nursing course in a combination of theory and practical, which is pretty exhausting. A non-experimental cross-sectional research study was conducted to check the perceived stress among the nursing students of ANM Institute in Bihar. The results showed that along with the stress if taking care of the sick patients, equally the lack of empathy and discriminating evaluation by the teachers are mentionable among many other contributing factors towards increasing stress. The study has also showed that majority of the students 61% are suffering from moderate level of stress. No significant association has been found with age, marital status , monthly income and place of living for the participants of the study. Arising level of stress among the students raises a concern for further exploration of the causative factors and their remedies may be suggested.