To find out the attitude of staff nurses regarding their legal responsibilities in some selected hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir State, sixty numbers of subjects (nurses) were questioned by simple random sampling technique was employed to select the sample subjects. A structured knowledge questionnaire with 39 knowledge items was developed for the study. Content validity of the tools and information booklet was established by 9 experts. Reliability was established by KR 20 method and the tool was found reliable with reliability coefficient of 0.7 .The reliability of the attitude questionnaire was established by test retest method which was found to be 0.85.The data collected was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. From the study it was found that majority (74%) of the staff nurses belonged to the age group of 30-40 years. 46% & 44% of the staff nurses’ professional education were post-basic BSc. Nursing and GNM respectively. Majority (88%) of the staff nurses had a working experience of 10-15 years. Majority (80%) of the staff nurses had not attended in-service education programme the mean pre test attitude score is 150.44.with a median 155 and SD 14.465 against the maximum score 210. The mean post-test attitude score is 186 with a median of 184 and SD 13.464 against a maximum score of 210. Mean post-test attitude scores 186 of staff nurses were found to be significantly higher than their mean pre-test attitude  scores 150.44 as evident from the ‘t’ value of 12.858  was significant., suggesting the effectiveness  of  booklet in adopting the positive attitude by staff nurses’ on legal responsibilities.

Key words: legal responsibilities, information booklet, staff nurses, attitude