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INTRODUCTION: The protective equipment consists of garments placed to protect the health care workers or any other persons to get infected. These usually consist of standard precautions: gloves, mask, and gown. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this study 100 samples were taken. Study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding use of personal protective equipments among the nursing students. Online study tool was given to the student. First pretest was conducted online, after three days of pretest online STP was provided to the students and after three days of STP, online posttest sample was collected from the students by using the same knowledge-based questionnaire. Analysis of the study was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULTS: In this study maximum number of the respondents belongs to the age group of 20-22 years (70%) and majorities 58 % of respondents were female. In this study 25% of respondents were from each batch. Majority, 67% of respondents reside in urban area and 71% of the respondents were not having any family members working in health care setting. 95% of respondents were having previous knowledge regarding use of PPE and 53% of respondents had knowledge related to PPE from other sources. Post-test mean % (76.25%) showed that the students gained higher knowledge after STP which indicates the effectiveness of structured teaching programme. A significant association was found between the knowledge score and demographic variables like educational level, previous knowledge regarding PPE and family members in health care profession.CONCLUSION: on the basis of findings it was found that STP regarding use of PPE was effective and students gained knowledge from it.