Background: It is important for nursing students that they must have knowledge regarding ethical and legal aspects in nursing which is practically applied when providing care to the patient. Therefore, this study will assess the knowledge of nursing students of nursing college regarding ethical and legal aspects in nursing.

Materials and Methods: A pre-experimental study was conducted to find out the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding legal and ethical aspects in nursing among nursing students. On 1^st day pretest was done by using structured questionnaire and on same day structured teaching programme was conducted for the nursing students regarding ethical and legal aspects of nursing on 8^th day post test was taken.

Result: It has been found that the majority of the nursing students have inadequate knowledge regarding ethical and legal aspects in nursing. In pretest 98.21% of the nursing students had inadequate knowledge and rest of 1.79 had moderate knowledge before attending the structured teaching programme, after structured teaching programme in post-test 100% nursing students have adequate knowledge regarding ethical and legal aspects of nursing. The mean difference of pre-test and post test knowledge score was statistically significant. In paired t-test the result shown that the value is significant at >0.05% level of significance.