Background: Burns are one of the common causes of injury with which patients present to emergency units. Much of the damage caused by burns can be prevented or reversed with appropriate emergency management in the emergency unit. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the program about improving
competency level among nurses in emergency burn units. Research Design: A quasi – experimental research design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at two settings, in Emergency burn units of Hehya hospital at Sharkia governate, and El Ahrar hospital at Sharkia. Subjects: The subjects for the study included all available nurses working in the previous mentioned two settings and their number were (50) nurses in Hehya hospital and (30) nurses in El Ahrar hospital. The convenient sample design was utilized in conducting of this study. Tools: Data were collected by using two tools: (I) interview questionnaire aimed to assess nurses’ knowledge regarding in emergency burn units, (II) observatioal check list aimed to assess nurse’s practices in burn units. Results: clarify that, nurses knowledge about burn characters were improved at the post-intervention phase, Where, the percent of improvement of knowledge about sign of burn infection was 14.9% the percent of improvement of knowledge about burn severity was 39.02%. , the percent of improvement of knowledge about burn complication was 40.13%. The percent of improvement of knowledge about prevention of burn 33.25 %, In generally the improvements were highly statistically significant (p<0.001). Moreover, the percent of improvement of competent skill score was 58.3%. These improvements were highly statistically significant (p<0.001). Conclusion: there was statistically significant correlation between nurses' knowledge score and nurses' competence skill score at pre & Post intervention phase. Recommendations: provision of in-service training on regular basis in order to improve competency level of nurses related to nursing care of burned patients should be conducted in all burn services units