Caring Behavior and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Jambi Teaching Hospital

Abstract

Nurses play an important role in the implementation of services, especially in the health sector. This service requires nurses to carry out professional nursing care in improving the quality of service. This professional nursing service is supported by the knowledge and competence that comes with caring behavior. The aim of this study was to determine the factors related to the caring behavior of nurses at the RSUD Raden Mattaher Jambi. This research used a correlation analytic study design with a cross-sectional approach with 170 respondents. Data collection using google form and analyzed by chi square. Tthere is a relationship between organizational factors (reward and workload) (p = 0.001), psychological factors (motivation) (p = 0.005), spiritual factors (p = 0.002) with caring behavior of nurses and there is no relationship between age (p = 0.862), gender (p = 0.907), education (p = 0.524), marital status (p = 0.639), employment status (p = 0.442), length of work (p = 0.162) with nurse caring behavior. There is a relationship between organizational factors (appreciation and workload), psychological factors (motivation), spiritual factors with caring behavior of nurses. There is no relationship between gender, age, marital status, education, employment status, length of work and caring behavior of nurses. It is hoped that the hospital can optimize and maintain the quality of nurse caring services.