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ABSTRACT: Introduction: Transition from being a student to working as a registered nurse is not just a phenomenon that begins with familiarization of the new workplace but it is an experience that influences the professional lives of newly joined nurses. Transition from a student to a fully pledged registered nurse presents with new challenges, stressors, and inconsistencies in professional practise for the new recruit. In order to provide effective nursing care nurses must be able to identify, manage and understand level of transitional shock not only in themselves but also in others. Studies have shown that workload in clinical, inadequate development of procedure skills, lack of organization support have strong relationship with level of transitional shock. The present study was conducted to assess level of transitional shock among newly joined staff nurses employed in selected hospitals of city. Objectives: 1. To assess level of transitional shock among newly joined staff nurses employed in selected hospitals of city. 2.To find association between level of transitional shock among newly joined staff nurses employed in selected hospitals of city with their selected demographic variables. Method: A non experimental descriptive research design was used among 100 newly joined staff nurses. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples. Tool: A structured 4 point Likert scale was used to assess level of transitional shock. Results: The finding of the study revealed that maximum 66% nurses have moderate transitional shock, 23% nurses have mild transitional shock and 11% nurses have severe transitional shock. Items like Development of good management skills (40%), lack of support by nursing administration (39%), conflict with senior (38%), working without breaks (47%), Disagreement concerning the treatment of a patient(38%), Being blamed for anything that goes wrong (38%) was frequently stressful among nurses. The demographic variables area of working, hours of duty per week, Do you do overtime, number of hours overtime duty done in a week and is induction training conducted were found to have significant association with the level of transitional shock. More the overtime, more is the transitional shock among newly joined staff nurses. Majority of the staff nurses for whom induction training was not conducted had moderate transitional shock as compared to those who for whom induction training was conducted.