1. To assess the knowledge regarding Bio-medical waste management among student nurses.

2. To evaluate the effectiveness of Educational Interventional Programme regarding bio-medical waste management among student nurses in terms of gain in knowledge scores.

3. To find out an association between pre-test knowledge scores regarding bio-medical waste management among student nurses and their selected socio-demographic variables.

Material and Methods: An evaluative research approach with pre-experimental: one group pre-test, post-test design was used for the study. The sample was consisting of 50 Student Nurses studying in KLE’S Institute of Nursing Sciences, Hubballi. They were chosen by probability: Simple Random Sampling Technique was used to collect the data.

Results: In this study overall result of the study revealed that the level of knowledge on biomedical waste management in pre test reveals that most of the subjects 36 (72%) had average knowledge, 11 (22%) had good knowledge and 3 (6%) had poor knowledge whereas in post test all the subjects 50 (100%) had good knowledge. The calculated paired ‘t’ value (t_cal=33.59) was greater than tabulated value (t_tab= 2.008). Hence, H₁ was accepted. This indicates that gain in knowledge score was statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance.

Conclusion: It is statistically proved and concluded that the educational interventional programme on knowledge regarding Bio-Medical Waste Management, is highly effective for improving the knowledge score of student nurses.