Background: Ethical leadership is the promotion of normatively appropriate personal and interpersonal conduct in making decisions, communication and reinforcement. Additionally, a key element of employees' work motivation is their work passion, which can be described as a person's like or love of their profession and the internalization of work into an individual's identity. Aim of the study: To investigate the effect of ethical leadership on nursing passion at Abu Hammad Central Hospital, Egypt. Subjects and Methods: Research design: A descriptive correlational study design was used. Setting: All departments of Abo Hammad Central Hospital affiliated to Ministry of health, Egypt. Subjects: A convenient sample of all nursing staff from the above-mentioned setting who were available and agreed to participate in the study at the time of data collection and having at least one year of experience were included in the study (n=295). Tools of data collection: Two tools were used for collecting data: tool (1) ethical leadership scale and tool (2) nursing passion scale. Results: More than half of studied nurses (53,9%) had high level of ethical leadership, and less than half of studied nurses (45.8%) had high level of work passion Conclusion: This study concluded that, there was a statistically significant correlation between ethical leadership and nursing passion. Recommendations: Organizations should integrate ethical leadership as a fundamental component in human resource management practices as in recruitment. Leaders must listen to what their teams want, worry about, and aspires to achieve.  Identify the unreasonable behaviors situations that will decrease work passion levels. It's important for healthcare organizations to recruit passionate nurses or cultivate a workplace that will trigger high levels of work passion.