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Background of the study: Among health professionals nursing is most common stressful profession connected to emotional nature of patients who expect continuous care by nurses which results in inter professional as well as interpersonal conflict.associated with advanced health technologies and changes in work set up in different areas. Aim of the study: To Assess The Level of Occupational Burnout And It's Effect On Job Performance Among Staff Nurses Working In Selected Hospitals At Vijayapur. Methodology: A descriptive research design was used to assess occupation burn out and job satisfaction using the Maslach burnout inventory scale and Job performance scale for 100 staff nurses who were selected by using convenient sampling technique. Results:It reveals thatmajority 34(34.0%) of the respondents were in the age group 25-27 years,52(52.0%) were females,47(47.0%) had monthly income between 5000-10000Rs,58(58.0%) were GNM, 52(52.0%) were married, 60(60.0%)were belongs to joint family. 46(46.0%) of the staff nurse had medium level of burn out followed by 42(42.0%) who had high level of burn out, and remaining 12(12.0%) had low level of burn out. 58(58.0%) staff nurse had moderate job performance, 19(19.0%) had Good job performance and remaining 23(23.0%) had poor job performance.