Background: Acute pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas that results in auto-digestion by its own pancreatic enzymes. The educational program is considered to be an important means to provide nurses with theoretical and technical information needed to acquire skills and competencies necessary to continually improve nursing practice. Objective: Theaim of this study was to evaluate effectof educational program on nurses 'performance regarding patients with acute pancreatitis. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used to conduct this research. Setting: The study was conducted in intensive care unit at Assiut University Rajhy Hospital for Liver. Subjects: All available nurses about 40 nurses. Tools: Data were collected using: tool1 nurse's knowledge assessment questionnaire, tool II nurse's observation checklist. The Results revealed that majority of the nurses their age less than 40 years old, with mean age of 25.98±6.46, female, where about 52.5% of study nurses had married. The majority of nurses had unsatisfactory total knowledge pre education program. It improved immediately post education program. Conclusion: The study concluded that the education program lead to significant improvement in nurses' knowledge and practice about acute pancreatitis. Recommendation: Continues educational nursingprogram about care of acute pancreatitis patients.

Background: Acute Pancreatitis is defined as a reversible inflammation of pancreatic parenchyma which is characterized by the presence of interstitial edema, acute inflammatory cell infiltrates and varies degree of cellular apoptosis, necrosis and hemorrhage. Nursing care for patients with acute pancreatitis must be directed at preventing complications, and optimizing patients' outcomes. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate effect of an educational program about acute pancreatitis on patients' outcomes. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used to conduct this research. Setting: The study was conducted in the intensive care unit at Assiut University, Rajhy Hospital for Liver. Subjects: A convenience sample of 60 adult patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. Tools: Data were collected using: tool I patients' assessment sheet, Tool II patients' outcomes sheet. Results revealed that the majority patients of pre and post program ranged between 18-77 years with mean of (42.37±18.4), most of them female, there was statistically significant difference regarding ascites (p=<0.001**) between patients` group pre and post program. Conclusion:The incidence of acute pancreatitis complications for patients cared by nurses who received education program was decreased. Recommendation: Replication of this research on a larger probability sample acquired from different geographic area in Arab republic of Egypt for generalization.