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Abstract Aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of educational program regarding care of children with intussusception on nurses’ knowledge and practice. Research design: A quasi experimental research design will be used to the present study. Subjects: 30 nurses from pediatric surgical department of Tanta University Hospital and 30 nurses from pediatric surgical department of Elshatbi University Hospital. Two tools were used to collect data: tool (1) Nurses’ knowledge about intussusception, tool (II) nurses’ practices regarding intussusception observational checklist. The results of the present study revealed that the most of nurses had a low level of knowledge pre the educational program about intussusception and a high percentage of them had unsatisfactory practice regarding care of children with intussusception before the educational program, whereas immediately and after one month ,nurses’ total scores of knowledge and practice improved .The study concluded that: There was effective improvement in nurses’ total knowledge immediately, after implementing the educational program and total practice scores regarding pre and post-operative nursing care intervention regarding care for children with intussusception. |