RESUMEN
Today's educational environment has rapid changes fostering the experience of burnout among educators. Burnout is an undesirable behaviors and continual problems faced by nurse educators because it's negative effects. These effects are tends to be withdraw emotionally from the demands of the job, impaired in the quality of teaching and commitment that lead to give less information and interaction with students. The prevention of burnout is dependent on the extent of the use of coping strategies. Therefore, the specific effort well managed in both behavioral and psychological that nurse manager utilize to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize stressful events. This study aimed to determine the relationship between burnout syndrome and coping strategies among nurse educators at Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University. This study conducted on 161 nurse educators working in 9 scientific departments in Faculty of Nursing-Alexandria University. A questionnaire was developed from two validated scales, and used in collecting data pertaining to this study. Namely; Maslach Burnout Inventory Educator Survey [MBI-ES], Ways of Coping Questionnaire [WOCQ]. The main finding of this study were that more than two third of the nurse educators perceived moderate burnout, and they were used self-controlling when they experienced low level of burnout, while confronting was used in case of moderate level of burnout. A statistical significance was found between level of burnout and using of coping strategies in terms of planful problem solving and positive reappraisal. Conclusion, in the light of this study, it is recommended that conducting of orientation program of juniors nurse educators on faculty policies, regulation, as well as innovative teaching methods and evaluation are fostering their professional growth and enabling them to fulfill their role