At any moment, you or someone around you could experience an injury or illness. Using basic first aid, you may be able to stop a minor mishap from getting worse. In the case of a serious medical emergency, you may even save a life. That’s why it’s so important to learn basic first aid skills. The objectives of the study were, to assess the knowledge levels on First aid management of Burns among GNM nursing students. To compare the knowledge levels on First aid management of Burns among GNM nursing students. To find out the association between knowledge levels on First aid management of Burns among GNM nursing students with their demographic variables. The Quantitative research approach with descriptive research design was used for the study. 40 first year GNM nursing students were selected by using simple random technique. The setting of the study was Rama College of nursing, Mandhana, Kanpur. Knowledge levels on First aid management of Burns among first year GNM nursing students were assessed by using structured knowledge questionnaire. The results of the study concluded that, the knowledge levels of nursing students out of 40 samples, 25(62.5%) students had moderate knowledge, 9(22.5%) students had inadequate knowledge and 6(15%) students had adequate knowledge. The calculated Mean was -10.4 and with SD-3.4, and there is no significant association at 0.05 level of significance with any selected demographic variables. Hence the study was concluded that as stated hypothesis H1 is accepted and H2 was rejected.

Knowledge levels, First aid management of Burns, GNM nursing students.