Nursing is dynamic in nature and nurses are often in high level of job stress because of hard job, work load and burden of responsibilities. These stressors can have negative effect on patient care. The focus of study was to evaluate the correlation of nurses’ job stress and quality of care delivered to patients. Objective: To assess the nurses job stress level and the association of job stress and patient care at tertiary care hospital. Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 144 participants working in tertiary care hospital. The nurses were selected via convenient sampling technique. The duration of study was 6 months. The data were collected by demographic characteristics, Caring Dimension Inventory (CDI-25) and NIOSH Generic Job Stress Questionnaire. Results: The results of this study showed that numbers of females were more 126 (87.5%) and majority of participants in age limit of 21-30 were 92 (63.9%). Most of the participants were bachelor degree holder 137 (95.1) and official job holders were 127 (88.2) at that institute. Large numbers of participants were bed side nurses 124 (86.1%). Most of the nurses felt moderate level of job stress (76.4%) and provide poor patient care (43.1%). The p-value of 0.001 was indication of the conclusion that there were association between nurses’ job stress and patient care delivered to patient. Conclusions: There was significant relation between the job stress and patient care. The job stress had negative effect on patient care delivered to patient by nurses. It also reduced the nurses’ performance which maybe factor of poor patients’ outcome

Aims: To evaluate the knowledge of the participants about theory practice gap and to determine the association of knowledge with demographic variable like age and educational level of the participants. Methodology: A cross sectional study design was used to conduct this study. This study was conducted at Government and private Universalities or Hospitals Lahore. Approximately 09 months after the approval of synopsis from Research Ethical Committee (REC). Sample size of 192 cases is calculated with 95% confidence interval, 7% margin of error and convenient sampling was used. Target population of the present study was nursing instructors and clinical nurses. SPSS version 21.0 was used for data analysis. Quantitative variables mean and standard deviation was be used. For categorical variables frequency and percentage was used.Chi-square test was be used. P-Value ≤ 0.05 was being considered statistically significant. The study was conducted in private and public sector in Lahore. Results: In out of 192 respondent about 65.63% having score less than 13.8 and 34.38% scored between 13.8-18.4. However non of the participents have score greater than > 18.4. Its mean that most of the study particepents fall in the poor knoweledge score. It further illustrated that regarding to assess the knowledge level of the participents about theory practice gap; show that there were no awearness regarding the thory practice gap in nursing. The finding of this study as helpful for the future researcher and educational institute how to reduce this theroy prectice gap. Conclusion: It is not enough to have good knowledge about the existence of the gap; efforts must be made to minimize it in order to close the theory-practice gap. The theory-practice gap can be reduced or minimized through effective collaboration, improved knowledge acquisition, continuous education, periodic curriculum updates, and the incorporation of evidence-based practices into the curriculum of learning. Keywords: Theory-Practice Gap, Knowledge, Pakistani Nurse, Educators, Private and Government Institute