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Health care associated infection are defined as infection at the time of admission to a health care settinghealth associated infection are those infection acquired in hospital first appear in 48 hours or more after hospital admission within 30 days after discharge. There was significant difference in overall mean knowledge score and practice score between the staff nurses of government hospital Hisar and govt hospital fatehbad regarding the prevention of hospital acquired infection, the obtained "t" value 6.707 (P< 0.05, df = 58) was greater than the table value at 0.05 level of significance. There was significant difference between the mean knowledge and practice score of the staff nurses of government hospital hisar and govt hospital fatehbad . The obtained "t" value 4 of the government hospital hisar was greater than the table value at 0.05 level of significance and the obtained "t" value 2.523 of the govt hospital fatehbad was greater than the table value at 0.05 level of significance. There was significant association between the age of the staff nurses and the level of knowledge regarding the prevention of hospital acquired infection (?2 =10.671, P <0.05, df=3, "t" value= 7.82 and ?2 = 6.696, P< 0.05, df= 2, "t" value= 5.99).There was significant association between the area of practice of the staff nurses and practice regarding the prevention of hospital acquired s infection (?2 =16.5, P< 0.05, df= 6 "t" value= 12.59).