Importance and role of stem cells in health industry is talk of the town now a days. But still many of our health care professionals lack in proper knowledge regarding its procedure and requirements. To explore this fact “An evaluatory study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding umbilical cord tissue and umbilical cord blood banking among nursing professionals in Mohan Dai Oswal Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab”. Quantitative approach and evaluator design has been chosen to conduct the study. A self structured tool was developed to collect data from subjects. Sample size N=30 which includes 17 clinical instructors and 13 Post Basic 1st Year students. Results revealed that pre test mean knowledge score was 15.5 (average knowledge). While post test mean knowledge score was 35.8 (excellent knowledge). On applying ANNOVA the difference between pre and post men knowledge score was found statistically significant at P< 0.001 level this depicts that the teaching was found to be highly effective. Further relationship between level of knowledge and selected variables was checked but no statistical significant relationship was found.

Keywords: Cord Blood Tissue; Cord Blood Banking; Knowledge; Student Nurses