Objective: To clarify the present condition of nurses' goal attainment through interactions with patients in Japan, and to explore nurses' attributes associated with it. Design: Descriptive and correlational research design. Sample and Setting: Five hundreds and nineteen nurses belonging to general hospital ward in Japan. Concepts Studied Together: Nurses' goal attainment in interactions with patients. Association between it and 29 nurses' attributes selected from literature review were explored. Methods: The Scale of Nurses' Performance for Goal Attainment (NPGA) was used to measure the degree of goal attainment of nurses in interaction with patients. The questionnaire for nurses' attributes was used to examine the above 29 attributes. The data were analyzed statistically, ex: correlation coefficients, t-test, ANOVA. Findings: The results of descriptive statistical analysis showed that the Japanese nurses perceived the degree of goal attainment slightly higher than average. Furthermore, they perceived that they interacted with other nurses well, and played their role of nursing team member as well, though their professional knowledge and skill had to be improved more, consequently they did not meet patients' individual needs so well. The result ofcorrelation coefficients, t-test, and ANOVA showed that 18 nurses' attributes were associated with the degree of goal attainment in interactions with patients(p<0.05). The attributes were age, responsibility to own family, income, attending experiences to continuing education, having role models, perception of nursing as one's job, reason of choice nursing as one's career, reason to work as a nurse, intention to work continuously, perception to present working ward, job satisfaction, and so on. Implications: To specify important factors related with nurses' goal attainment in interactions with patients, multivariate analysis need to be carried out to investigate the 18 nurses' attributes which were found in this research.
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