Background: Emotional intelligence is a social skill that controls stress and influences nurse's ability to cope with the demands and environmental pressures. It can enhance professional skills in health care providers. Aim: Assess the relation between emotional intelligence and coping strategies with occupational stress among nurses. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted in all Critical Care Units at Benha University Hospital. Subjects: Convenient sample consisting of (224) nurses with at least one year of experience at time of study. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used: I) Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. II) The Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale. Results: Majority (92.9%) of studied nurses had high level of emotional intelligence and more than half (58%) of nurses had high level of coping strategies with occupational stress. Conclusion: There was statistically significant positive correlation between total level of emotional intelligence and total of coping strategies level with occupational stress. Recommendation: Conducting in service training and education programs as needed for nurses periodically to increase their emotional intelligence abilities and urgently use coping strategies to manage occupational stress.