It has been observed that the psychiatric emergencies were frequently occur in the society so its
knowledge is necessary for the staff nurses. Hence I felt the need to undertake a study on Effectiveness of
structured teaching programmed on knowledge of staff nurses regarding psychiatric emergencies in order to meet the
challenges of crises later. Sampling is the process of selecting sample from the target population to represent the entire
population. Convenience sampling is a type of non-probability sampling method where subjects selected because of their
convenient accessibility and 30 proximity to the researcher. In the present study convenience sampling technique is used to
select the sample. These was marked improvement of scores in the post test is 46.67% sample were having excellent knowledge,
41.67% sample were having very good knowledge, 10% sample were having good knowledge and 1.66% sample were having
average knowledge. The statistical outcomes of demographic variables of staff nurses residing in selected hospitals in the city,
effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding selected psychiatric emergencies among staff nurses
residing of selected hospitals in the city using descriptive and inferential statistics on the basis of previously drawn objectives.