Abstract:
Performance of nurse is a good activity that taken fucntionally and structurally but the optimal
performance had not seen that is given by nurses., such as services in the infusion nursing where
nurses often do not provide an explanation of benefits and usefulness of the infusion. Researcher
has obtained preliminary data from a new nurse’s performance at Lubuk Basung Hospital done
around 60%. This study aims to determine the relationship between nurse characteristics and
performance in nursing implementation at Lubuk Basung Hospital. This study design used
correlation studies conducted between 11 and 23 February 2014 at Lubuk Basung Hospital. The
population of this study were nurses with samples are 33 respodents with using accidental sampling
technique using C instruments and questionaires. This study showed that there is more than half of
nurses poor performance (57.6%). Most of the nurses showed the young adult category (75.8%).
More than half of college-educated nurses (54.5%). And more than half the working lives of nurses
showed ≥ 5 years. This study incated that there is relationship between age and nurse performance
(p=0.047), relationship between education and nurse performance (p=0.043) and relationship
between time working and nurse performance (p=0.02). The point of this study, there is relation
between nurse characteristics and performance in nursing implementation at Lubuk Basung
Hospital. Therefore, expected Lubuk Basung Hospitals can set the Standart Operational Procedures
(SOP) of nursing implementation and can apply it, Lubuk Basung Hospital given reward and
punishment to every nurses who apply it or not
