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Newborn resuscitation is a complex procedure that requires the use of specialized knowledge and skills in an emotionally charged and stressful situation. Knowledge about newborn resuscitation, frequent performance of skills and comfort level with skill performance is dimensions of quality implementation of newborn resuscitation. Newborn resuscitation is a series of action that are taken in order to revive an infant immediately after birth so that normal respiration and circulation may be initiated and maintained. It is an attempt to facilitate the dynamic transition from fetal to neonatal physiology. The approach used for this study was non experimental study research approach. The research variable of the study is knowledge and practice regarding resuscitation of Newborn among staff nurses working in neonatal intensive care unit and extraneous variable are age, gender education qualification, area of residence, marital status, professional experience and source of information. The pilot study was conducted to find the feasibility of the study 23nd of February 2021 to 28th of February 2021 among Staff nurses. The main study was conducted from 21-04- 2021 to 30-04-2021 among 60 subjects; the subject was selected by convenient sampling technique and data was analysed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics. The overall knowledge on resuscitation of Newborn. The mean score is 19.16 with a mean percentage of 59.87 with a standard deviation of 1.719, practice scores of staff nurses on resuscitation of Newborn were found to be 73.7% with standard deviation 1.91. The present study was to assess the knowledge and practice regarding resuscitation of Newborn among staff nurses working in neonatal intensive care unit had moderate knowledge and moderately Good Practice on resuscitation of Newborn.