Background: Burns are wounds in skin as well as the supporting tissues brought through electricity, fire, coming into touch with hot water, or objects, or receiving therapy of radiation. Also the burns can occur in kids of any age.
Aim: was to evaluate the effect of instructional guidelines on nurses' performance regarding burn injury management in children. Method: In the actually research, a quasi-experimental research approach was utilized.
Sample: A convenient sample will be used in this research (45 nurses). Setting: The research was conducted at Minia University as well as General Hospitals which is associated with the Ministry of health as well as population.
Tools: The 3 tools utilized to gather the research data; these tools composed of (first tool 1^st part): Predesigned Questionnaire (second part): knowledge of nurses, (second tool): observational checklists for the nurses (third tool): Design the instructional guidelines regarding burn injury management in children. Results: More than half of nurses had poor knowledge in pre-test, while the majority of the participants had good knowledge in the post-test. Most of the nurses had incompetent practices in the pre-test, while all of them had competent practice in post-test, positive correlation between participants' total scores of knowledge, as well as practices. Conclusion: According to the results of the actual research instructional guidelines on nurses' performance had a positive impact on raising the knowledge of nurses as well as practices related to burn injury management in children in the post-test.
Recommendation: Application of educational principles over time to improve nurses' expertise and performance in managing burn injuries in children.