Overview of Nurse Performance at the Samadua Inpatient Health Center, South Aceh Regency

Abstract

Community Health centers was developed as the spearhead of health services in Indonesia. One type of service available at the community Health centers is the community Health centers with inpatient services. Community Health centerss as a health service provider must strive for quality services in order to provide satisfaction to patients while still being guided by health service standards. One of the main tasks of the nurse is to pay attention to the needs of patients, treat patients with full responsibility and provide care services to individuals or groups who experience stress due to illness. One of the successes in providing quality and quality health services is influenced by the performance of Human Resources, in this case, nurses. The purpose of this study was to describe the performance of nurses at the Samadua Inpatient Health Center in South Aceh District. The research design used is descriptive with a cross sectional approach. The population and sample were all nurses at the Samadua Inpatient Health Center, totaling 30 people. The results of the study concluded that the majority of respondents were aged 26-45 years as many as 17 people (56.7%), female sex as many as 22 people (73.3%), D-3 Nursing educated as many as 20 people (66.7%) and length of service > 10 years as many as 14 people (46.7%), and the performance of most nurses is in the good category as many as 13 people (43.3%). Seeing that the category of good nurse performance is still below 50% of the number of working nurses, it is suggested to the Samadua Inpatient Health Center in South Aceh District to further facilitate nurses in participating in training and continuing education activities so that they have even better performance.