Every woman around the world has a right to receive respectful maternity care. The concept of “respectful maternity care” has evolved and expanded over the past few decades to include diverse perspectives and frameworks Objective of the study were 1.To assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding respectful maternity care.2.To assess the practice of staff nurses regarding respectful maternity care.3. To find the correlation between knowledge and practice regarding respectful maternity care. 4. To determine association between knowledge with selected demographic variables 5. To determine association between practice with selected demographic variables. Material & method of the study were The tool was developed in the form of three section as demographic data, structured knowledge questionnaire and observational checklist. The purposive sampling technique was used for selecting 100 staff nurses in labour from selected hospitals of the city. The Result of this study showed that, the knowledge level of staff nurses was found Majority of the samples 65(65%) were having inadequate level of knowledge on respectful maternity care whereas 29(29%) were having moderate knowledge and 6(6%) were having adequate knowledge level on respectful maternity care. Assessment of practice among staff nurses regarding respectful maternity care that, The majority of the samples 71(71%) were having inadequate level of practice on respectful maternity care whereas 29(29%) were having moderate level of practice and none of the sample were having adequate level practice on respectful maternity care The researcher used KARL PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (r) to identify the relationship between knowledge and practice score (r= -0.018, p=0.856).The association between level of knowledge score on respectful maternity care with selected demographic variables. The study demographic variables were age, religion, education status, year of experience, monthly income and type of hospital In order to compute the association between the level of knowledge score and demographic variables chi-square was applied and the value was observed with 0.05 significance level. It was observed that there was no any demographic variable found association with level knowledge on respectful maternity care. The association between levels of practice score on respectful maternity care with selected demographic variables. The study demographic variables were; age, religion, education status, year of experience, monthly income and type of hospital. In order to compute the association between the level of practice score and demographic variables chi-square was applied and the value was observed with 0.05 significance level. The chi-square value of the demographic variables, such as education was χ = 13.296 with a 3 degree of freedom and year of experience χ = 7.118 with a 3 degree of freedom showed significant association with level of practice at 0.05 level, and there were no other demographic variables found association with level of practice on respectful maternity care. The study concluded that staff nurses have inadequate knowledge and inadequate practices regarding respectful maternity care. The knowledge and practice will be improved after providing the information booklet regarding respectful maternity care.