Objective：
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among Job Strain, Self evaluated health status and turnover tendency in nursing staff in Taiwan.
Methods：
A cross-sectional survey among female licensed nurses. A self-administered questionnaire were used to collect data. A structured questionnaire has been designed. Job stress questionnaire was based on the Johannes Siegrist’s effort-reward imbalance model (ERI).
Results ：
Overall has 504 hospital nurses were included in the analysis. The result showed the mean of nurse’s health status of this research was lower than the national average. The hospital nurse with high effort low reward rate is 75.3%, overcomminment rate is 25.8%. The study showed working stress has significant influence to the nurses health and turnover tendency.
Discussion：
The result showed nurse with high effort-low reward imbalance had poor health. We hope this findings could provide the evidence that management should take action to monitor and reduce nurses’ working stress.
