RESUMEN
In a climate of rapid changes in the structure of health services and the development of mew categories of nursing personnel, it is imperative to define and set standards for the practice of nursing. Such standards demonstrate to the public that nurses are concerned with the quality of nursing care and with self-regulation to assuse a desirable level of care. The aim of the study was to establish standards of nursing care for upper gastro-intestinal bleeding patients at the hematemsis unit of Emergency hospital- Mansoura University. Subjects of study consisted of two groups experts in the fields FGI surgery and all nursing staff present in the setting. Two tools were used in the study regarding essential standards of nursing care of UGIB patients. The results reuealed lacke of nurses efficiency in assessment and performing nursing care needed for those patients and recommended establishing nursing care standards for UGIB patients