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Intravenous fluid therapy is the fastest way to deliver fluids or medications directly into a vein. It is common aspect of therapy used for the dilution of medication and maintenance of body fluids, and widely used in hospital settings. Intravenous fluid administration practices are important and remain an essential part of patients' care during hospitalization. Globally, approximately 25 million people receive intravenous (IV) therapy by the use of an intravenous cannula. It is a routine but potentially harmful procedure in hospitals. Methodology- The current study was a descriptive hospital based cross-sectional study among the nursing staff at the Gwalior. The total sample size were consists of 50 study participants were selected by the using of purposive sampling technique. The data collection by the self-structured to collect the data and analysis by the using of SPSS. Results- The study revealed that the majority out of 50 study participants, highly majority 84% of staff nurses were have average knowledge, 12% of staff nurse were have excellent knowledge, and, least 4% were have inadequate knowledge regarding the Intravenous administration. Respectively in study results depicts that practice staff nurses is score 16(32%) in average range while 34(68%) nurses score in good range in administration of IV therapy. Discussion and conclusion- that there is a positive correlation between knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding administration of IV therapy. Scores are (r = 0.165, p< 0.05) hence null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and research hypothesis (H1) was accepted. There is positive correlation between knowledge and practice of staff nurses that is knowledge increases there is slightly increases in practices also. There is no significant association between age and knowledge gender, professional qualification, total clinical experience, availability of IV therapy equipment's, attended in service educational programme, and, frequency of administering IV therapy per day (>0.05)