Background: Pregnancy in a woman with SLE endures a high-risk situation with
increased incidence of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. Aim of the study: the
study aimed to evaluate the maternity nurse's knowledge and performance regarding care of
pregnant women with Systemic lupus. Study design: Descriptive study was adopted to
conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the inpatient department, antenatal
clinic, rheumatology clinic in the fayoum university hospital and El Nabawy El Mohandas
hospital. Subject: Convenient sample technique was used to recute all maternity nurses (60
nurses) in all pre mentioned setting. Two tools of data collection were used; I) A
Structured interviewing questionnaire it consisted of 2 parts, the questions of first part was
related to personal characteristic of the study sample, the second part consisted of questions
to assess the study sample knowledge related to systemic lupus, II) An Observational
Checklist to assess nurses ‘performance toward care of pregnant women with SLE. Result:
revealed that slightly more than half of the studied nurses had poor knowledge and less than
three quarter of studied nurses had incompetent skills related to care of pregnant women with
systemic lupus, there was highly significant difference between total knowledge and total
skills score p (0.001). Conclusion: there was slightly more than half of the studied nurses
had poor knowledge, less than two thirds of the studied nurses had incompetent skills related
to care of pregnant women with systemic lupus and highly statistically significant difference
between total knowledge and total skills score. The study recommended that; still needed
further study to evaluate the effect of instructional guidelines related to care of pregnant
women with systemic lupus on maternity nurses