Background: Improving the quality of patient care is the target of health professionals
anywhere. It is believed that the quality of nursing care offered in a hospital is affected by a
number of factors as nurses' preparation and training at work. The aim of the study was to
measure effect of a nursing care training program on staff nurses' performance and
empowerment. Setting: The present study was conducted in the Emergency Hospital at
Zagazig University Hospitals. A sample of convenience 60 staff nurses, from the above
mentioned settings, were recruited for the study, as inclusion criteria at the start of the study
with overall responsibility for provision of direct nursing care to surgical patients and having
at least one year of experience. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection: Knowledge
questionnaire to examine staff nurses' knowledge related to care of surgical patients, an
observational checklist for nurses' surgical practices and Nurses' psychological empowerment
questionnaire it translate into Arabic. These tools were used before implementation of the
program, immediately after its implementation and three months later. Results revealed that
there are highly statistically significant positive correlations between knowledge,
performance and psychological empowerment immediately and follow up for nurses caring
for the surgical patients. Therefore, it was concluded that, study revealed lack in nurses'
knowledge, performance and psychological empowerment before implementation of the
training program. However, implementation of the designed training program had a positive
effect on nurses' knowledge, performance and psychological empowerment immediately and
at follow up phase (three months later) for nurses caring the surgical patients.