Hubungan Penerapan Jenjang Karir dengan Motivasi Kerja Perawat di Rumah Sakit

High nurse work motivation has a positive impact on improving the quality of care services provided to patients, increasing the welfare of the nurses themselves and achieving organizational goals. The application of nurse career paths is considered to be able to influence the work motivation of nurses and as a form of guarantee for nurses in developing their careers in the agencies where they work. However, in the implementation at the Brebes Hospital, three people said they had not benefited from the application of career paths and two people said they did not know about the application of career paths. The general objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the application of career paths and the work motivation of nurses at Brebes General Hospital. The design of this research is descriptive correlation with cross sectional approach. The tool used for data collection was in the form of a valid and reliable questionnaire. The research sample for nurses at Brebes General Hospital was 75 respondents, taken using accidental sampling technique. Based on the results of the correlation analysis using Spearman's rho, it was obtained a p value of 0.001 <0.05. These results indicate that there is a significant relationship between the application of career paths and the work motivation of nurses at Brebes General Hospital.There is a relationship between the application of career paths and the work motivation of nurses at Brebes Hospital. This research is expected to be a valuable insight for nurses and hospital management in designing policies that support the implementation of better career paths, so as to increase the work motivation of nurses to provide quality services to patients.