Description of Implementation of Therapeutic Communications by Nurse Implementers in Room Inside Hospital Ernaldi Bahar Palembang South Sumatra Indonesia in 2018

Therapeutic communication is very important role in nursing service, because therapeutic communication is an absolute and decisive activity for the relationship or interaction of nurses and patients in supporting the recovery of patients and find solutions to the problems that are being experienced client.

This study aims to determine the picture the implementation of therapeutic communication by the executing nurses in the inpatient wards of Eraldi Bahar Hospital Palembang in 2018. Methods and samples

This research is descriptive with quantitative methods. Technique that used in choosing the samples was Total Sampling method. The sample size was 52 people from 5 inpatient rooms of Ernaldi Bahar Hospital Palembang for 11 months from June 2017 until May 2018.

Based on the result of research it is found that from 52 nurses, 44, 2% are 36–40 years old, 78.8% female sex, 36.5% vocational education, 63.5% nurse implementing therapeutic communication well.

The implementation of therapeutic communication at Ernaldi Bahar Hospital Palembang in 2018 with good category.

Hospitals need to pay attention to nurses’ therapeutic communication in nursing service by conducting routine room head supervision to nurse executing to assess therapeutic communication performed by nurse executor to patient.