A descriptive correlation designed study was conducted to explore the coping strategies of nurses in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Sample of the study contains 71 ICU nurses who were drawn from three units and were requested to complete a standardised questionnaire examining coping strategy. Result shows that most frequent coping strategies were seeking advice, examining self and exhausting all possible avenues; indeed, positive emotion-focused coping was highlighted among five types, followed by problemorientation, ability enhancement, change of perspective and negative emotion-focused coping. Therefore nursing education background is related to positive emotion-focused coping (sig=0.007), and the ICU training program is highly significant (sig=0.019) for ability enhancement and less significant (sig=0.060) for problem orientation. The results provide some evidence to support the suggestion that personal professional characteristics have a different significance to coping strategies.