ABSTRAK Jumlah penderita HIV selalu meningkat di setiap negara. Resiko penularan HIV cukupbesar, sehingga menyebabkan kecemasan pada perawat dan mempengaruhi kualitasasuhan. Tujuan penelitian adalah menggali pengalaman perawat dalam merawat ibu HIVdengan seksio sesarea. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode kualitatif denganpendekatan fenomenologi. Partisipan dipilih dengan purpossive sampling sebanyaklima partisipan. Pengumpulan data dengan wawancara mendalam, hasilnya dibuattranskrip dan dianalisis dengan metode Collaizz’s. Hasil penelitian didapatkan enamtema utama yaitu: berbagai perasaan perawat sebagai sesama perempuan, persepsitentang merawat, makna merawat, motivasi ketika merawat, hambatan dalam merawat,harapan dan kebutuhan. Hasil penelitian memberikan implikasi berupa informasi untukmeningkatkan kualitas asuhan keperawatan. ABSTRACT HIV/AIDS emerges and spreads rapidly all over the world. The health care providers, particularly nurses, are at risk to get infected. However, the anxiety of getting infected may influence the quality of nursing care. Accordingly, this research tried to explore the nurses’ experience in caring for HIV positive mother undergoing sectio caesarean in the Gunung Jati Hospital, Cirebon. Five participants chosen by the purposive sampling method were deeply interviewed. Furthermore, the data was analyzed by the Collaizzi’s method to elucidate six major themes of the nurses’ experience in caring for HIV-positive mother: nurses emotional as women, nurses’ perception on caring, meaning of caring, motivation for caring, challenge in caring, expectation and need in caring. The qualitative information yielded on the research can be an advantageous consideration in improving quality of maternity nursing care for HIV-positive patients. |