Caring is the care of the nurse with all his heart towards the patient. Concern, empathy, gentle communication and compassion for the patient will form a therapeutic nurse-client relationship, thus caring for nurses will make patients feel comfortable, safe and feeling less stressed due to the illness they suffer. Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the caring behavior of nurses in pediatric patients during hospitalization. Method: This study used a descriptive method, the number of samples in this study were 70 parents of pediatric patients who were treated at Dr. H. Soewondo Kendal selected using a purposive sampling technique. The instrument used is in the form of a questionnairecaring behavior. Data was analyzed using descriptive analysis. Results: The results showed that (54.3%) respondents thought that nurses' caring behavior was in a sufficient category, with sub variable details: knowing behavior (55.7%), being with behavior (45.7%), doing behavior for (88.6%), enabling nurses' caring behavior (50.0%), and belief behavior (74, 3%). Conclusions: of the research conducted on respondents in the Dahlai RSUD DR. H. SOEWONDO KENDAL shows that most of the nurses caring behavior is in the sufficient category 38 respondents (54,3%).
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