Nursing is one of the most rapidly evolving professions. According to statistics given by WHO, 2024 there are around 29 million nurses globally. Nurse leaders play a pivotal role in advancement of this profession. And according to WHO 2024 women make 25% of nurse leadership roles1. Though the nurse leaders play a calm and confident roles during global crisis they came across various challenges. The current study is aimed at assessing the various factors barriers the leaders are facing globally. A quantitative non-experimental descriptive correlational design was opted for the present study. A total of 73 nurse leaders were selected using convenient sampling technique. The study showed 64% of staff nurses had above average knowledge and 67% of nurses had a positive attitude. The overall mean of the knowledge was 18.9+ 2.9 and the mean of attitude was 21.8+7.1. The correlation ‘r, value of knowledge and attitude was 0.6, showed that there is a moderately positive correlation between knowledge and attitude. Among the benefits student or patient benefits were ranked first with a modified mean of 0.9 and administrative barriers were ranked first in barriers with a modified mean of 0.99.