Objective: To assess the level of compassion fatigue among nursing staff working in the neurological wards.Background: Compassion fatigue is expressed as the price of compassionate care paid by health care professionals, especially nurses, who work alongside patients with critical physical dysfunctions such as neurological dysfunction in a stressful environment such as neurological wards.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the present study. A purposive sample of 131 neuroscience nurses who worked in the neurological wards and had met the study's inclusion criteria were targeted. The data collection started from January 21st , 2022, to March 1st , 2022. Face-to-face interviews were used for data collection. A compassion fatigue scale was used to measure the level of compassion fatigue among the study participants.