Effectiveness of an education health program on nurses’ knowledge about care of neonatal jaundice at neonatal intensive care unit in Al-Nasiriyah City Hospitals

The study aims to assessing the nurses’ knowledge about management care of neonatal jaundice at neonatal intensive care unit and Evaluation the effectiveness of an education program for nurse’s knowledge about care of neonatal jaundice children. A quasi-experimental study design one study group (pretest posttest) carried out at intensive care unit of pediatric teaching hospitals in AL-Nasiriyah city to identify Effectiveness of an Education Health Program on nurses’ Knowledge about Care of neonatal Jaundice. The findings of the study indicated that nurses have poor knowledge in pretest. But post evaluation revealed good level of knowledge among nurses toward neonatal jaundice in the neonatal intensive care unit. The program reflects effects on nurse’s knowledge. There were no statistical significant association between nurses’ knowledge and their demographic characteristics Conclusion: There was no statistical significant association between nurses’ knowledge and their demographic characteristics except the level of education. The study demonstrated that there was poor nurses’ knowledge at nICU toward care of newborn with neonatal jaundice before application program in pretest and good practices in post 1 and posttest 2.