Harahap, Afrida SriyaniAndrianto, Mufida2016-01-132016-01-132016-01-132461-1069wahyu sari yenihttp://repository.unri.ac.id/xmlui/handle/123456789/7768Documentation is an important record for nursing care in hospitals. It is evidence of nursing implementation that uses method of nursing process approach, and record about patient response to medical intervention, nursing intervention or reactions of patients to disease. Type of this research was correlational study analytic with cross sectional design. The population was all of nurses in inpatient unit in RSUD M. Zein Painan with a sample of 56 nurses. Sampling design was proportional sampling with simple random sampling technique. This research was conducted in 18 - 31 of May, 2015. Data were collected by observation sheet and questionnaire as research instrument.The result showed 55,4% of nurses had poor nursing documentation, 80,4% of nurses was vocational nurse, 58,5% of nurses had worked for a long time and 57,1% of nurses had low motivation. Chi-square test showed that there was significant correlation between education with documentation,and motivation with documentation. But there was no significant correlation between length of work with documentation of nursing. It’s suggested to nurses to be more fully aware that the documentation is a thing that can’t be separated in the implementation of nursing care and nurses need a training about documentation of nursing care to improve the quality of nursing care especially in field of nursing documentationenEducation LevelLength Of WorkMotivationDocumentation Of NursinGUR-Proceedings