1 Suprajitno, Sari, Anggraeni, Relationship of Nurse Caring Behaviour with ... Correspondence Address: Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang – East Java, Indonesia P-ISSN : 2355-052X Email: bedonku@gmail.com E-ISSN : 2548-3811 DOI:10.26699/jnk.v7i1.ART.p001–005 This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ) JNK JURNAL NERS DAN KEBIDANAN http://jnk.phb.ac.id/index.php/jnk Relationship of Nurse Caring Behaviour with Patient Satisfaction at the Emergency Department of Catholic Hospital of Budi Rahayu Blitar Suprajitno 1 , Yeni Kartika Sari 2 , Elizabeth Niken Budi Anggraeni 3 1 Nursing Department, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang 2 Nursing Department, STIKes Patria Husada Blitar 3 Nurse Practitioner, Catholic Hospital of Budi Rahayu Blitar 1 Article Information History Article: Received, 14/10/2019 Accepted, 06/03/2020 Published, 05/04/2020 Abstract One indicator of hospital services is patient satisfaction related to nurses caring behaviour. The caring behaviour of nurses who provide nursing services in the Emergency Department is expected to increase the satisfac- tion of nursing services. The purpose of this study was to study the rela- tionship between nurses caring behaviour with patient satisfaction receiv- ing nursing services at the Emergency Department of Catholic Hospital of Budi Rahayu Blitar. The research design was cross sectional. Sample sizes were 80 patients who received nursing services at the Emergency Depart- ment were selected by purposive sampling. The study variables were nurse caring behaviour and patient satisfaction. Data were collected using a ques- tionnaire. Analysis using the Spearman rank test. The analysis results ob- tained p = 0.000 and r = 0.618, which means there is a strong positive rela- tionship between nurses caring behaviour with patient satisfaction. Sug- gestion, nurses maintain and even increase caring behaviour, especially communication skills in the orientation phase. ©2020 Jurnal Ners dan Kebidanan Keywords: Caring Behaviour; Satisfaction