Nursing entails the nurse meeting the patient's needs whatever the situation. Moral goal is to help the patient replace negative with positive feelings it at all possible. The unhealthy environment of the working place ie; low salary, lack of promotion facilities, lack of coordination of the colleagues, managerial attitudes, personal problems are causing occupational stress and job dissatisfaction among nurses. The sample of the study consisted of 80 nurses working in both Government and Private Hospitals in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu. The tools used for the study were Occupational Stress Index by A.K.Srivastava and A.P.Singh 1984, Job Satisfaction Scale by Amarsingh and T.R. Sharma 1986. The statistical techniques used for the analyses were 't' – test and Pearson – r. The major findings of the study were (i) There is a significant difference between nurses who were degree holders in nursing and diploma holders in nursing in their job satisfaction. (ii) There is a significant difference between Government and Private nurses in their Job satisfaction. (iii) With regard to the place of residence, there is no significant difference between Urbanites and Ruralites on Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction. (iv) In the case of Occupational Stress, qualification, place of residence and nature of institution ie; whether government or private, did not have any influence.