Abstract:
The nursing care is a process in nursing practice that provided directly to the patients.. The level of
education is one or other contributing factor in provision of process nursing care. Nurse education is
an effort to create a professional nursing staff and developed along with the development of science
and technology. The purpose of this research to determine the correlation with educational level of
nursing with care to patients mental disorder in the Tampan of Psychiatric Hospital. This research was
descriptive correlation study with cross sectional approach. The data retrieval techniques were total
sampling with the samples of 63 respondents. The instruments used questionnaire with the
observation sheet comprising six points on the application of nursing care. Processing and analysis of
the correlation of education level of nursing care using level the chi-square test. The result of the
research is (pvalue=0.012) that there was a significant correlation between level of education with the
provision of nursing care to patiens with mental disorders. To the hospital are expected to improve the
quality of human resources to increase the level of education