HUBUNGAN MOTIVASI PERAWAT DENGAN KINERJA PERAWAT DI RUANG RAWAT INAP RUMAH SAKIT DAERAH PANEMBAHAN SENOPATI BANTUL TAHUN 2008

Background: Hospital was an organization that is foundbecause of the society demands which are more complex andthey have realized that health is very important. It makes thehospital must gives the optimal services for the society. Nursingservices in the hospital are the main factor to decide the servicequality and the image hospital on the society, because thegreater society need of the good services the higher nurses’working motivation will be needed in order to improve theirperformance optimally. The purpose of the study is to find outthe relation between nurses’ motivation and performance inHospital Ward in Panembahan Senopati Bantul.Method: This was a survey analytical research using crosssectionalapproach to find out the relation between nurses’motivation and performance at the same time. The instrumentwas questioners that consist of the nurse characteristics andquestions on nurses’ motivation and performance.Results: The finding analysis using product moment correlationwith significance score is 5 % (p < 0.005) showing there wasa significance relation between internal motivation and externalmotivation factors (p = 0,000) with nurses’ performance. Therewas a relation between the sub-variable responsible(p=0,001), acknowledgment (p=0,000), achievement (p=0,000),development (p=0,000), task (p=0,033), supervise (p=0,001),work condition (p=0,000), organization policy (p=0,000), salary(p=0,000) and nurses’ performance. However, there is nosignificance relation between colleagues and nurses’performance. The result of double regression analysis showsthe relation between internal and external motivation factor(p=0,000) and nurses’ performance. While the sub-variableachievement (p=0,005), development (p=0,003), work condition(p=0,004), and organization policy (p=0,000) have a notsignificance relation with nurses’ performance, but the others(responsible (p=0,734), acknowledgment (p=0,320), task(p=0,145), supervise (p=0,268), colleagues (p=0,773) andsalary (p=0,118).Conclusion: This research showed that the internal andexternal motivation factors were good, so it must be maintainedto keep the effect on nurses’ motivation. According to theresearch findings, it also needs to increase the nurses’motivation so that it can increase the nurses’ performance inorder to get the hospital goal. It can be done by developing thenurses’ resource by doing workshop or getting highereducation.Keywords: motivation, performance, nurs