The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Helping attitude is a quality within the individual that is useful for the person who gives, as well as who receives. Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families and communities. The present study aims at finding the level of helping attitude among nurses who are working in government hospitals, and in private hospitals. The participants of the study include 60 nurses. Purposive sampling method was employed for the collection of data. The participants were administered using Helping Attitude Scale (HAS) developed by Gary S. Nickell, Minnesota State University Moorhead in the year 1998. Obtained results were analysed using independent samples t-test. The result indicates that there is no significant difference in the level of Helping Attitude among nurses working in government hospitals and nurses working in private hospitals. Helping is a very kind behaviour and all the nurses no matter which place they are working or serving for, their nature of helping others, remains the same.
Helping Attitude, Nurses, Government Hospital, Private hospital
