Evaluation of Nurses’ Knowledge toward Breast Self-Examination at Al-Hussien Teaching Hospital in Thi-Qar Governorate

Objective: To evaluate nurses’ knowledge toward Breast Self-Examination at Al-Hussien Teaching Hospital in Thi-Qar governorate. A purposive “non-probability” sample of (238) nurses who were selected from Al-Hussien Teaching hospital in Thi-Qar governorate for the period from October 1^st 2015 to April 1^st of 2016. The study results indicated that the participants’ age is more than half of them is within 18–27 years-old (62.2%), their gender is approximate; (69.3%) for female, and (30.7%) for male, mqqore than half of them are married (n=131; 55%); more than half of them has ≤ 5 years of working in nursing (62.6%), more than half of them report that their monthly income is Enough somewhat (51.7%); the majority of them live in urban areas (90.8%); and less than quarter of them work in emergency room (23.9%); less than half of them has Academic achievement is Institute (41.2%). The majority of the participant has a high knowledge (87%). there was a significant association between the nurses’ knowledge and their monthly income, address, and workplace.