P4C Training

Assertive nurses are capable to build effective team relationships, to manage workplace stress, gaining self-confidence, and to earn respect from others while respecting them. Thinking skills training is the fundamental component of promoting assertiveness programs. This approach leads us to investigate the effectiveness of philosophizing as the manifest of thinking skills, on promoting assertiveness skill. The aim of this presentation is to explore the effects of philosophizing through the philosophy for children (P4C) program on promoting nurses assertiveness skill. Although P4C has been introduced to promote children´s thinking skills but according to our experiences, it is useful for adult population by some modification in the content. In this study 50 nurses randomly allocated to “P4C training” and “control” groups. 12 sessions of P4C training were conducted for 25 members of intervention group in three months.

T test and descriptive statistics using SPSS18 program applied to data analysis. The results indicated that the assertiveness was significantly improved in intervention group. P4C program increase the inter-relationship skills and enhances cognitive, reasoning, emotional and social development of individuals. The participants of P4C program learn dialectic conversation and respecting different ideas and values. Development of ethical understanding in the context of philosophizing is the other advantage of P4C. Considering the P4C attributes, increasing assertiveness skill in intervention group is justifiable. Although applying P4C was effectiveness to increase assertiveness among the study participants, further investigations are needed to approve P4C usefulness in other nursing