Objective To translate the Grief State Scale for Nurses （GSSN） into Chinese, and to evaluate its reliability and validity among clinical nurses. Methods After getting copyright permission, the English version GSSN was translated into Chinese and was back translated according to the Brislin model, then the Chinese version of the GSSN was formed through cultural adjustment, which was then used to investigate 221 clinical nurses by convenience sampling from 2 tertiary hospitals in Huzhou City in December 2022, and 30 nurses of whom were randomly selected to fill out the questionnaire again after 2 weeks, in order to test the reliability and validity of the Chinese version scale. Results The Cronbach′s α coefficient of the Chinese version scale was 0.813, which was 0.729, 0.855, 0.846, and 0.929 respectively for its four subscales, and its test-retest reliability was 0.915. The scale-level average content validity index （S-CVI/Ave） was 0.980, and its item-level content validity index （I-CVI） ranged from 0.833 to 1.000.A total of 4 common factors were extracted from exploratory factor analysis, and the cumulative variance contribution rate reached 74.232%. Conclusion The Chinese version of GSSN has good reliability and validity, and it is suitable to evaluate the grief level of nurses.