Objective To explore the relationship between professional identity and work engagement of nursing interns(hereinafter referred to as nursing students),so as to provide reference for nursing manag-ers to carry out interns'teaching tasks and further cultivate nursing talents.Methods The research team used general information questionnaire,the Professional Identity Questionnaire for Nursing Students(PIQNS)and the Job Engagement Scale(JES)to conduct a survey based on 207 nursing students in a ter-tiary A hospital in Shanghai from December 2022 to January 2023 using convenience sampling method.Re-sults The total scores of PIQNS and JES of nursing students were(62.54±11.71)and(72.03±10.61)re-spectively.There was a positive correlation between the total score and each dimension of professional iden-tity of nursing students and the total score and each dimension of job engagement(all P<0.05).Conclu-sions Nursing administrators should grasp the critical period of identity transformation of nursing students,and improve their professional identity and promote the development of nursing talent by con-structing and implementing personalized and high-quality teaching models.