Background: Angina pectoris is considered chest pain due to insufficient coronary
artery blood flow and increased myocardial oxygen demand. Stable angina is a chronic
disease that can progress to unstable angina or myocardial infarction. Lifestyle
modification, medications, and cardiac intervention/ cardiothoracic surgery all play a part in
its management. Aim of the study: To evaluate nurses' performance regarding caring of
patients with angina attack at emergency and critical care units. Subjects and method:
Anexploratory descriptive design was used to conduct this study on fifty nurses who are
associated with giving direct care for patients in the emergency and critical care units at
Alazhar University Hospital at new Damietta city. Data were collected by using two tools:
Nurses' knowledge assessment questionnaire to assess nurses' knowledge regarding angina
and observational checklists to assess their practices. The resultsof the present study
concluded that 70% of studied nurses had a fair level of knowledge, while 62% of them
had a fair knowledge score regarding angina care. As regarding practice, 60%of the studied
sample had fair level of practice. There was a significant difference between level of nurses'
knowledge and their practiceconcerning care, as well as highly statistical significant
difference between nurses' characteristics; qualifications, job, and years of experience and
their level of knowledge regarding care of patient. This study recommended that to
improve nurses' performance regarding caring of patients with anginaeducational program
should be conductedcontinuously.