Abstract: Objective: To investigate current status of the workplace violence and nurse’s performance for goal attainment,and explore the effect of workplace violence on nurse’s performance for goal attainment. Method: Totally 544 nurses were questionnaired by the workplace violence scale. The level of nurse’s performance for goal attainment was compared between the violence group and the non-violence group, different violence form and different violence frequency groups. Multiple linear stepwise regression analysis was used to explore the effect of workplace violence on nurse’s performance for goal attainment in nurses. Results: The incidence rate of workplace violence was 66.18%, and 75.28% nurses suffered psychological violence,18.06% suffered physical violence, 6.76% suffered sexual violence. The scores of nurse’s performance for goal attainment in violence group were significantly lower than that in the non-violence group (P<0.01); There was significant difference in the total score of nurse’s performance among the psychological violence group, physical violence group and sexual violence group (P<0.05);The scores of the total score of nurse’s performance for goal attainment were significantly lower in suffered once violence group were significant lower than that in the suffered twice or more violence group (P<0.01); Multiple linear stepwise regression analysis showed that the workplace violence, work experience and title were the influencing factors of nurse’s performance for goal attainment (P<0.05). Conclusion: The incidence rate of workplace violence is high, and the nurses suffered workplace violence are in the low level of performance for goal attainment, and the more serious and frequent of working violence, the poorer level of nurse’s performance for goal attainment.