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Occupational stress among health-care professionals, nurses in particular, is a major concern worldwide, occupational stress among care professionals. Occupational stress affects productivity adversely such as health-related problems in the workforce, absenteeism, and turnover, thus placing job performance among nurses' and patients' lives at risk. The effects of organizational level on the specific aspects can be assessed by various job stress inventories. The findings from various occupational health hazards, studies have shown that the excessive workload on nursing professionals, the complexity of patient care activities, poor organized work environments, and lack of support of administration are considered contributing factors to job stress which may also result in providing unsafe care. Furthermore, nurses frequently experience occupational stress due to the nature of the nursing profession. Thus, it is critical to implement effective organizational interventions to minimize work-related stressors and to improve the work performance of nurses. It is significant to have supportive working environments that encourage collaboration and empower nurses to provide excellent care and reduce work-related stressors. Nurses working in senior management levels mostly report that they experienced stress more often while making critical decisions and dealing with crisis situations than did nursing officers at lower levels in the hierarchy, for whom inadequate salary and lack of opportunity for advancement were more stressful. For males, work stress was more strongly related to concerns about their role in the power structure of an organization, whereas females mostly report that they experience more severe stress when there is a conflict between job requirements and family relationships. A comprehensive workplace stress management program is an urgent need whereby stressor reduction process can be learnt by all resulting in self-management behavior which will improve the emotional well-being of the nursing workforce and productivity and will decrease absenteeism after some period posttraining. For some people, a consultation with counselor, psychologist may be required, whereas in few cases, treatments and therapies also may be needed. It is already seen that early interventions are an effective means of preventing problems among nurses and all health workers on a day-to-day basis. Dear readers, continuous efforts are done by authors, reviewers, and the editorial team to bring out this Jan–June 2023 issue of ISPN journal, which is presented to you, to enhance scientific, advance knowledge, and practice of psychiatric-mental health nursing. Enjoy reading it.