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Today nursing is considered as a discipline of higher technology coupled with a wealth of complex information. As technology is advancing at a rapid speed, nurses involved in patient care should up-to-date their knowledge. Having knowledge only is not adequate they should apply this knowledge while providing care to patients to improve the health of patients and to prevent development of complications. Quasi-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used to assess the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding legal and ethical issues in care of children among nurses working in pediatric units at selected hospitals Kanpur. An evaluative approach was adopted in this study and it was carried out at Rama hospital. The non-probability purposive sampling was used to select 60nurses. The tool used for the data collection was self-structured knowledge questionnaire. Data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Data from the above figure depicts that in pre-test 39(65.00%) subjects had inadequate knowledge, 18(30.00%) subjects had moderate knowledge and 03(05.00%) regarding legal and ethical issues in care of children. In post-test 48(80.00%) had adequate knowledge and 12(20.00%) had moderate knowledge. Therefore, the research hypothesis H1 was accepted, i.e. there is significant difference between mean pre-test and post-test knowledge score. Overall findings showed that there is knowledge deficit among nurses regarding legal and ethical issues in care of children and STP was effective in improving their knowledge.