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Abstract Background: Pregnancy in a woman with SLE endures a high-risk situation with increased incidence of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. Aim of the study: the study aimed to evaluate the maternity nurse’s knowledge and performance regarding care of pregnant women with Systemic lupus. Study design: Descriptive study was adopted to conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the inpatient department, antenatal clinic, rheumatology clinic in the fayoum university hospital and El Nabawy El Mohandas hospital. Subject: Convenient sample technique was used to recut all maternity nurses (60 nurses) in all pre mentioned setting. Two tools of data collection were used; I) A Structured interviewing questionnaire and II) An Observational Checklist. Result: revealed that slightly more than half of the studied nurses had poor knowledge, less than two third of studied nurses had unsatisfactory skills, there were a statistically significant difference between ages, years of experience, training course and total knowledge and total performance score regarding to care of systemic lupus during pregnancy. There was highly significant difference between total knowledge and total performance score p (0.001) Conclusion: there was slightly more than half of the studied nurses had poor knowledge, less than two third of studied nurses had unsatisfactory skills related to care of pregnant women with systemic lupus and highly statistically significant difference between total knowledge and total performance score. The study recommended that; still needed further study to evaluate the effect of instructional guidelines related to care of pregnant women with systemic lupus on maternity nurses knowledge and performance. |