The therapeutic communication is emergence for the nurses, by mean that each of them should owning ability to do the therapeutic communication very well. The nurses ability in using the
therapeutic communication to the child patients, priory on the preschooler kids would help the recoverys efficacy. The use of therapeutic communication in inexact way would rise thee
hospitalization stressed to the child, such as the childs highly dependent ness on their parents, also the childs anxiety and fear during his/her hospitalized period. This research has a purpose to gain
information about giving the therapeutic communication to the preschooler kids at Prof.Dr. H. Aloei Saboe Local Public Hospital Gorontalo related to the nurses acknowledgement and attitudes. The
sample of this research is 23 on-duty nurses in the children room. The sample is taken purposively, reminded by this research is limited only on the on-duty nurses in the children room. The instruments
that used in this research is closed questionnaire and observations sheets. The data is analyzed by percentage. The results shows that the education rate of the nurses are mostly at the D3 nursery
graduated (69,6%), followed by S1 nursery graduated (21,7%), meanwhile the SPK graduated nurses are only placed at (8,7%). The nurses age are mostly between 26-30 years old and having the working
period less than 5 years. The nurses acknowledgement about giving therapeutic communication to the preschooler children, in a good-enough category (73,9 % respondents has adequate acknowledgement).
The nurses attitude in giving the preschool child a therapeutic communication, in a good-enough category (69,6 % respondents has the adequate attitude)
