Effect of Assertiveness Teaching on Assertiveness among Final Year Student Nurses in Selected College of Nursing, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Nursing profession mostly based on the communication and if nurses are not able to communicate properly with their patient then she doesn't know about the need of the patient and also not provide proper care to the patient and it prevents the nurses from positive outcomes in giving care to the patients. It's very important in nursing profession that nurses need to be assertive when professional nurse interact with the patients, colleague, and other health care personnel's because lack of assertiveness demoralized the nurses.

The main objective of this study was to assess the assertiveness among final year student nurses before and after giving assertiveness teaching in selected college of nursing Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

The study has adopted pre-experimental research design. The data was collected from 39 student nurses by administrating demographic profile and Simple Rathus Assertiveness Schedule. Samples were selected by using convenient and consecutive sampling technique.

Majority of (89.7%) participants were in the age of group of 20–24 years and 10.3% fall in age group of 25–30 years. All the participants (100%) were female. The study showed that the post test mean of student nurses was 129.69 (SD = 15.30) which is higher than the pre test mean 105.18(SD= 11.21). The mean difference was 24.51. The‘t’ value was 12.7 and found statistically significant at (p < 0.05) level of significance. It is indicating that the increase in assertiveness was not by chance but because of the intervention. Hence, it was interpreted that assertiveness teaching was significantly effective in increasing the assertiveness of the student nurse.

This study demonstrated that there was strengthening in assertive behavior after giving assertiveness teaching program therefore intervention was effective.