Background: To be effective in preventing post abortion mortality and morbidity, emergency post abortion care must widely accessible throughout the health systems to all women. The health care facilities and trained medical providers, in order to the accessibility of post abortion care, health services and providing post abortion family planning services that includes contraceptive methods which are essential in preventing unwanted pregnancies.

1. To assess the effectiveness of self instructional module on post abortion care among staff nurses.

2. To determine the association between posttest knowledge scores of staff nurses and their demographic variables.

Methods and Materials: A pre-experimental one group pretest-posttest research design was used for this study. The sample consisted of 40 staff nurses working maternity wards, they were chosen by a convenient sampling technique. In pretest majority of the staff nurses 36(90%) had inadequate knowledge on post abortion care whereas in posttest majority of the staff nurses37 (92.5%) had adequate knowledge and only 3(7.5%) of staff nurses had moderately adequate knowledge. The study findings revealed that self instructional module on post abortion care was highly effective in improving the knowledge of staff nurses.