%0 Journal Article %T Assessment of Maternity Nurse’s Knowledge and Performance Regarding Care of Pregnant Women with Systemic lupus %J Egyptian Journal of Health Care %I Ain Shams University, Faculty of Nursing %Z 1687-9546 %A Khaled Ahmed, Dalia %A Mostafa, Eman %A Eid Farrag, Rania %D 2022 %\ 12/01/2022 %V 13 %N 4 %P 1087-1099 %! Assessment of Maternity Nurse’s Knowledge and Performance Regarding Care of Pregnant Women with Systemic lupus %K Systemic Lupus Erythematous %K maternity nurses performance %K Rheumatic disease %R 10.21608/ejhc.2022.266942 %X Background: Pregnancy in a woman with SLE endures a high-risk situation withincreased incidence of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. Aim of the study: thestudy aimed to evaluate the maternity nurse’s knowledge and performance regarding care ofpregnant women with Systemic lupus. Study design: Descriptive study was adopted toconduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the inpatient department, antenatalclinic, rheumatology clinic in the fayoum university hospital and El Nabawy El Mohandashospital. Subject: Convenient sample technique was used to recute all maternity nurses (60nurses) in all pre mentioned setting. Two tools of data collection were used; I) AStructured interviewing questionnaire it consisted of 2 parts, the questions of first part wasrelated to personal characteristic of the study sample, the second part consisted of questionsto assess the study sample knowledge related to systemic lupus, II) An ObservationalChecklist to assess nurses ‘performance toward care of pregnant women with SLE. Result:revealed that slightly more than half of the studied nurses had poor knowledge and less thanthree quarter of studied nurses had incompetent skills related to care of pregnant women withsystemic lupus, there was highly significant difference between total knowledge and totalskills score p (0.001). Conclusion: there was slightly more than half of the studied nurseshad poor knowledge, less than two thirds of the studied nurses had incompetent skills relatedto care of pregnant women with systemic lupus and highly statistically significant differencebetween total knowledge and total skills score. The study recommended that; still neededfurther study to evaluate the effect of instructional guidelines related to care of pregnantwomen with systemic lupus on maternity nurses %U https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/article_266942_6acd0d5b33256bd9a22b7ac681303010.pdf