Pengembangan Pola Karir Perawat Klinik Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah Tarakan Jakarta Pusat Tahun 2008

Background: The nurse as a majority health worker in thehealth care sector including the hospital has a significant rolein the health care. The value of nursing care that is continuous,constant, coordinative, and advocative so the preparation,usage, distribution, and retention of the nurse, has an importantimplication to obtain the objectives of health care and itscontinuity.Purpose: This study is conducted to explore the clinical nursecareer pattern development in the Tarakan General Hospitaland to design the career pattern development which suitablewith their role and function.Method: The qualitative method had been used in this study.The data collection was done by indepth interview and FGD.Result: Tarakan Hospital have 245 nurses with thecharacteristics as below: 77.96% of total nurses have theage range of 25 - 44 years old, 61.22% of nurses had workingperiod > 3 years, 72.24% of nurses had nursing diplomaeducational background, and 41.22% of nurses aregovernmental officer. The implementation of nurse careerdevelopment is not based on the competency test. The nursecommittee also did not play their role as it should be.Conclusion: The study recommended Tarakan Hospital toconduct advocacy toward the hospital director board todetermine the regulation of nursing career path remunerationsystem based on their career rank in the hospital and tooptimally make the function of nursing committee in formulatingthe competency test instrument related to the nursing careerdevelopment.Keywords: career pattern development, clinical nurse, TarakanHospita