Background of the study:–Occupational coping self–efficacy is the beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments.Burnout is syndrome of reduced personal accomplishment, increased emotional exhaustion and increased depersonalization experienced by individuals that work closely with people.

Aim: – The study was carried out to assess the occupational coping self efficacy, burn out and it’s contributing factors among new graduate nurses.

Methodology: An exploratory research design was used to conduct the study. A sample of 150 new graduate nurses was taken by convenience sampling technique from DMC & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab. Occupational coping Self Efficacy Questionnaire – Nurses (Rento Pisanti 2008), Modified Maslach Burn Out Inventory (Maslach 2000) and structured rating scale were used to assess the occupational coping self efficacy, burn out and its contributing factors respectively.

Results: Out of 150 new graduate nurses 74 (49.3%) had high and 74 (49.3 %) had moderate and only 2 (1.4 %) had low level of occupational coping self efficacy. More than half i.e. 89 (59.3%) new graduate nurses had moderate burn out in emotional exhaustion, 104 (69.3%) new graduate nurses had high burn out in depersonalization and more than half  84 (56%) new graduate nurses had high burn out in personal achievement. All the new graduate nurses i.e. 150 (100%) reported duty workload, sudden change in duty shift, night duties and sudden critical situations as contributing factors to burn out.

Conclusion: The study concluded that majority of new graduate nurses had high and moderate level of occupational coping self efficacy. The level of burn out was found to be high in depersonalization and personal achievement section where as it was moderate in emotional exhaustion section of burn out.Duty workload, sudden change in duty shift, night duties and sudden critical situations were main contributing factors to burn out.