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Background: Complementary and alternative therapy is a growing area of health care. worldwide. It is defined as a "broad domain of healing resources that encompasses all health system, modalities and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health system of a particular society or culture in a given historical period." Complementary and alternative therapies are harmonious with many of the values of nursing. These include a view of humans as holistic beings, an emphasis on healing, recognition of the provider-patient relationship, which should be focused on health promotion and illness prevention. Both the physician and the patients have positive attitude towards complementary and alternative therapies and there has a marked increase in complementary and alternative therapies for users in India. One of the largest subgroups of complementary and alternative TheraPostgraduate Nursing student users are women in the reproductive age group and educated and employed women. Expectant mothers are keen to use complementary and alternative therapy because they provide a range of additional supporters for pregnancy and labour. It is the happiest moment for the mother when she conceives, but it become worst moment when labour pain starts & she suffers from anxiety & nervousness. There is recent development in treatment modalities, which is very helpful to the mother during labour. It helps to reduce the pain, lowers her anxiety level & makes her ready for the process of labour. These treatments are other than pharmacological modalities & known as alternative & complementary therapies. Within maternity care the use of complementary and alternative therapy is focused towards helping women to cope with discomforts of pregnancy and labour. Midwives are the professionals best placed to provide complementary and alternative therapy to pregnant, child bearing and newly delivered mothers and their babies. Thus, as primary caregivers, midwives should be aware of the range of alternative and complementary therapies that are available and should be able to advise women accordingly. Need of the study: Alternative system of medicine is the approaches to medical diagnosis and therapy that has not been developed by use of generally accepted scientific methods. Forms of alternative therapy included acupuncture, acupressure, and aromatherapy. Ayurveda, etc. Complementary and alternative therapies are increasingly used worldwide nowadays. These groups of medical therapies involve a wide variety of methods that are evolved from health related theories and practices that have been developed outside the western bio-medical model. Many traditional systems are practised by individual cultures throughout the world. All of the systems are focusing on holistic care of the client. In this era the nurses have always been concerned with the client as a whole--that is, with the holistic person--they are increasingly embracing holistic healing. Nurses are learning how to become "healing" nurses and see themselves as "healers". Now the nurses are incorporating alternative and complementary healing techniques such as Massage, Imagery, Meditation, Acupressure, Art and music therapy, Breathing exercises, Biofeedback, reflexology, and tai chi exercises, therapeutic touch, prayer, humour, and others into their practice. The care in midwifery focuses on participatory and holistic approach, that it treats birth as a natural occurrence and supports a woman's choices. This encourages and motivates the client to make wise decisions regarding their own care. Many women choose alternative and complementary therapies during their labour process. They expect that it will give a positive outcome towards their pregnancy and following childbirth. Material and method: Pre-experimental The approach was used with one group pre-test and post-test design. The study was conducted in the selected government medical college attached. Hospitals of Gujarat state the investigator used systemic random sampling techniques for selecting 40 samples. In view of the nature of the problem and accomplishment of the objectives of the study, Video-Assisted Learning on Alternative and Complementary Therapies was prepared for samples. A structure knowledge questionnaires and attitude were prepared to Assess the knowledge and attitude of samples. Content validity to the develop tools and Video Assisted Learning was established by 8 experts and necessary modification were made as suggested by them to checked reliability of the knowledge questionnaires and attitude Likert's rating scale by the test-retest method by using Karl Pearson's formula and the reliability of structured knowledge questionnaires was 0.96, and reliability of attitude was 0.86. Pre-test 01 03 Schematic diagram of one group pretest-posttest design. Key Post-test 02 X 04 Knowledge Attitude O1: Pretest knowledge of the experimental group on alternative and complementary therapies. O2 Post-test knowledge of experimental group on Alternative and Complementary Therapies O3: Pre-test attitude of experimental group on Alternative and Complementary Therapies O4 Post-test attitude of experimental group on Alternative and Complementary Therapies X Administration of video-assisted learning on Alternative and Complementary Therapies Result: Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The mean pre-test knowledge score was 12.47, the mean a post-test knowledge score was 19.12, the mean pre-test attitude score was 58.15, and mean post-test attitude score was 71.12. calculated 't' value for Knowledge and Attitude was statistically tested using paired test, it was found significant at 0.05(t39=9.77, t39=11.79). There was moderately positive correlation between post-test knowledge and post-test attitude (0.70) at post-test Knowledge mean score (19.12) and post test attitude mean score (71.12) at 0.05 level of significance. In the association there was no significance association between pre-test knowledge score with demographic variable and there was a significant association between pre-test attitude with demographic variable. There was a significant association between pre-test attitude score and Total Clinical Experience of Samples: The calculated value of chi-square (9.37) was more than table value (7.82) and degree of freedom (3). There was a significant association between the pretest attitude score and Maternity Department Experience of Samples calculated value of chi-square (12.38) was more than the table value (7.82) and degree of freedom (3). Conclusion: There was significant increase in the knowledge and attitude of the staff nurses working in Maternity Department of the selected Government Medical College Attached Hospitals of Gujarat state after administrating of the Video Assisted Learning on Alternative and Complementary Therapies Hence, it is concluded that video-assisted learning was effective in improving the Knowledge and Attitude of the Staff Nurses Working in the maternity department in Selected Government Medical College Attached Hospitals of Gujarat state. Key words: Alternative and complimentary therapies in term of knowledge and attitude among staff nurses working in maternity department of selected government medical college attached hospitals of Gujarat state.