title: [The assertive nursing administrator].
abstract: This article explains assertive behavior in nursing administrators. This is an important quality that helps safeguard the interests of nursing staff and enhances the dignity of the nursing profession. Assertive behavior differs from non-assertive behavior and aggressive behavior. It is a learned interpersonal communications skill that communicates one's professional position and feelings, confirms one's needs, expressess opinions clearly at the right time and place, provides appropriate facts to illustrate problems and avoid judgment errors, and politely and firmly sustains an appropriate degree of independent authority necessary to upholding the rights and dignity of nurses.
authors.affiliation: Min-Hwei College of Health Care Management, ROC. nelly922003@yahoo.com.tw
authors.forename: Yu-Chun
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Yin
mesh_terms: D001242:Assertiveness; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*