Nurse who is able to develop positive relationship with client can help to reduce uncertainty directly
associated with high emotional distress, anxiety and depression by providing opportunity to patient
to develop alliance, communication and acceptance. The purpose of the study was to analyze the
influence of nurse’s interpersonal relationship on perioperative patient's family uncertainty. The
study used analytical design with cross sectional approach and involved 42 respondents of total
family members who underwent perioperative’s procedures using simple random sampling
technique. The study conducted in Central Surgical Installation Unit (CSIU) at District Hospital in
Jombang, East Java, from May to July 2015. The independent variable of the study was nurse’s
interpersonal relationship while the dependent variable was perioperative patient's family
uncertainty. The result of the study showed that nurse’s interpersonal relationship has been in good
criteria (52,4%) and perioperative patient's family uncertainty has been in mid level (50%). The
result of regression analysis showed the value of probablity 0,000 which was smaller than the value
of alpha (a) 0,05 meant there was significant influence between nurses’s interpersonal relationship
on perioperative patient's family uncertainty with regression model formed as follows, uncertainty
(y) = 96.316-2,231 x interpersonal relationship (x). The percentage influence of interpersonal
relationship on uncertainty was 38,9%. The conclusion of the study stated there was significant
influence between nurses’s interpersonal relationship on perioperative patient's family uncertainty with regression model formed as follows, uncertainty (y) = 96.316-2,231 x interpersonal relationship (x)
