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Introduction: : Lack of health literacy for smoking nurses has worsened image of nursing services. The role of leader can be a support in increasing behavior change of nurses who smoke. The aimed to find out health literacy of smokers in nursing staff through interpersonal role of the head of the room by intervention based on Peplau’s model.Methods: A quasi-experimental research with a pre-and post-control group design, using modification questionnaire of knowledge and behavior. The target population was nurses living in Singkawang who smoke in a hospital. Sample was 35 respondents for each group (controlling group and intervention group) using purposive sampling. Dependent variable is health literacy among nurses who smoke and independent variable is intervention based on Peplau’s model. Intervention is in the form of a guide module consisting of strengthening health literacy (health awareness, self-reflection, cognitive competence and behavioral interpersonal relationships in the head of the room) and   will be implemented to nurses who smoke. Analysis data for bivariate used paired t – test and for multivariate used the McNemar test.Results: The research showed that the difference before and after intervention was 2.23 (p = 0.001) and control group was 8.00 with a default value of 0.870 deviation. The results showed a significant increase in health literacy in nurse smokers through the role of interpersonal head nurse (p=0.001).Conclusion:Role of head of room in interpersonal relationship with Peplau’s model affects the health literacy of nursing staff who smoke.

Background: Active-passive motion therapy and deep breathing techniques are non-pharmacological methods of pain management. This method can reduce pain intensity and without indication. This happens because it can control pain by minimizing sympathetic activity in the autonomic nervous system. Relaxation involves muscles and does not require exercise. Aims: To compare the active-passive motion therapy and which deep breath relaxation is more effective toward pain intensity of patients with post-section Caesarea surgery. Method: The research design was used quasi-experimental. The number of samples was 32 people. The sample of this study was undertaken by Accidental Sampling. this research was conducted at the Santo Vincentius Singkawang Hospital. Data analysis was using an independent paired t-test. Result: From the results of statistical calculations, the data obtained p = 0.041 (p = <0.05), thus H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted, which means that the active-passive motion therapy is more effective in reducing pain intensity in patients with Post-sectio Caesarea surgery. Conclusion: The results of this study revealed that the active-passive motion therapy was very effective in reducing the intensity of post-operative pain Caesarea. This study recommended that the active-passive motion therapy can be used to reduce pain intensity in patients with sectio Caesarea surgery.