A descriptive study conducted to assess the quality of sleep and level of stress among 100 nurses engaged in shift duties in selected hospitals of Pune city by using questionnaires Demographic data, Pittsburgh sleep quality index, Nursing stress scale Proportionate stratified random sampling techniques is used.

Result: 51% of poor and 49% of good quality of sleep, 46% of severe, 40% of moderate, 8% of very severe and 6% of mild level of stress, and also correlation seen that the nurses having more stress are prone to have poor quality of sleep. Demographic variables marital status, were found to have significant association with quality of sleep and level of stress, number of children and salary were found to have significant association with quality of sleep, Work experience and Working hours in a day/night were found to have significant association with level of stress.it is suggested that nurses having stress are prone to have poor quality of sleep.