| Becoming Assertive: A Guide for Nurses is a self-help book that shows nurses how to apply assertive behavior totheir profession. The book is written especially for nursingstudents, whatever their level of training. It can be used inintroductory nursing courses that cover nursing process orinterpersonal skills and in care or foundation courses in grad-uate programs. The book can also be used in a course onpsychiatric nursing or community health, trends in nursing,leadership, management, value clarification, program planning,or communication. Becoming Assertive: A Guide for Nurses is designed to helpnursing students improve their communication skills, self-development, and personal and professional effectiveness. As-sertive, nonassertive, and aggressive behavior is defined withthe help of examples from nursing situations. The book encour-ages nurses to learn to differentiate among these behaviors andto understand that everyone uses each of them at some time. Allof us, however, do not always consciously choose to use or avoida certain behavior. This book emphasizes the idea that individ-uals can decide which behavior is comfortable for them in aparticular situation. Nurses are encouraged to speak in a self-affirming manner and to express thoughts, feelings, opinions,and beliefs honestly. |
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