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Background: Since our mothers' and grandmothers' days, enormous changes have taken place in the delivery of nursing care to the mother and the newborn. In their days, most babies were delivered at home by an untrained woman, neighbor, relative or friend or for the fortunate few, by a physician or trained midwife. In the changing scenario of health care system of today's world, the trends in midwifery and obstetrical nursing are also changing. There is new advancement in care being provided, parenthood planning, national policies. Aim: To assess the knowledge and attitude on selected recent advanced trends in midwifery practice among staff nurses, moreover to find out the correlation between knowledge and attitude and also to find out if there is any association between knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variables. Material and methods: In this study descriptive survey research design was used. 200 staff nurses were selected by simple Random sampling technique. Data collection was done by administering the structured knowledge questionnaire and Likert's attitude scale. The collected data was optimized and analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The result reveals that most of the samples (50.5%) were having average knowledge and majority (58%) has positive attitude. Conclusion: A significant average knowledge and positive attitude was found regarding selected recent advanced trends in midwifery practice. Health care professional and government have the responsibility to provide proper information regarding recent advanced trends in midwifery practice so that staff nurses will be aware about it.