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Nursing is one of the challenging professions in the health sector. Nurses are always at risk for developing many occupational health problems because of physically demanding nature of work i.e.,working in the same positions for longer periods , lifting or transferring dependent patients and caring for high number of patients. Amongst those, work related musculoskeletal problem i.e., low back pain (LBP) is very common. This study was hence conducted to assess the prevalence of low back pain among the nurses working in Amar Hospital District, Patiala, Punjab. Detailed sociodemographic data which included age , gender ,weight ,present area of work, shifts, wearing heels, marital status, and family history of low back pain. In addition to these, data collected from the semi structured questionnaires are also taken into account. From the finding, present study showed that , Low back pain was present in 39 (65%) of staff nurses. There was no significant association of quality of life of staff nurses having low back pain with selected sociodemographic variables i.e. age (in years), weight (in kg), gender, marital status, family history of low back pain, present area of work, total work experience (in years), mostly on which shift. There was significant association of wearing heels with low back pain at p>0.05. study shows that low back pain is prevalent in nurses of all age group, specially among adults. It revealed that there was no significant association of quality of life of staff nurses having low back pain with selected sociodemographic variables i.e. age (in years), weight (in kg), gender, marital status, family history of low back pain, present area of work, total work experience (in years), mostly on which shift. There was significant association of wearing heels with low back pain at p>0,05.