Recently, the inflammatory bowel disease medical/surgical inpatient units were combined which resulted in a knowledge gap in both the medical and surgical nurses who would now be caring for both IBD patient populations. No previous intensive all day IBD education had been given in the past. The staff nurses expressed a strong need for IBD education. Therefore, the IBD Center nursing staff developed and provided an IBD educational program for the IBD inpatient medical/surgical staff nurses. The goal was to advance the nurses current knowledge of IBD by using expert clinicians and select patient volunteers to educate the nurses and utilization of a pre and post test questionnaire evaluation. The educational program committee consisted of IBD expert nurses, including a staff nurse, medical Advanced Practice Nurse (APN), surgical APN, and stoma care APN. They met with the section chief, co-director of the IBD Center to get faculty support and participation in the program, members of the Nursing Professional Development Department as resource coordination and Unit Educator to assist in getting nursing education credits for the program. After meeting with Professional Development and the unit manager, we learned that the staff nursing schedule is made once every 8 weeks, so this allowed us to project a date that would facilitate nurse attendance. This initial meeting included discussion of program topics, timeframes/deadlines for submission of speaker slides, speaker selection and dates for the program. Advertisement flyers and email blasts were used to promote the program to the nursing staff. A 10 item IBD questionnaire was formulated incorporating medical, surgical, and stoma questions that were the key takeaways the committee felt the nurses needed to optimize patient education in the care and management of IBD patients. The questions were then reviewed by the nurse educator for clarity, education level appropriateness and understanding. Feedback was received and questions were altered as needed. This questionnaire was given to the staff nurses prior to the start of the program and also again at the conclusion via IPADs. Seventeen unit staff nurses attended the program. Seventeen of the 54 staff nurses attended. Of the 10 questions upon initial testing, an average of 56.22% of staff nurses answered each question correctly. After the program with re-test, an average of 80.5% of staff nurses answered each question correctly. This is a 24.28% increase in correctly answered questions on average. The nurses gave unanimous positive feedback in regards to the course content, speakers, addition of patient involvement and psychosocial implications of the disease and stated if offered again, they would definitely participate and encourage others to do so. The pre-test showed a great need for education in managing the IBD patient population and the post-test results did show that the course increased the knowledge base of the staff nurses. We have considered presenting this class on different days of the week, or splitting into 2 half days to engage more nurses. Next step is to look at how increased staff knowledge influences patient outcomes.