Abstract: Caring is considered a universal need, central concept for nursing and an important component in the delivery of nursing care. The literature is rich of previous studies that focused on perceptions of nurses toward nurse caring behaviors, but most of these studies were conducted in western communities. The purpose: identify a medical-surgical nurse's perceptions of caring behaviors among hospitals in Taif city. Method(s): A convenience sample of 90 nurses of two major hospitals in Taif city were completed the demographics questionnaire, and the Caring Behavior Assessment (CBA) questionnaire. Results: Nurse participants ranked the four items from Humanism/Faith-hope/ Sensitivity subscale as the most important caring behaviors, while three items from Helping/trust subscale had the least important caring behaviors, there is a statistical significances between demographic characteristics of nurses regarding educational qualifications and Expression of positive
egative feelings, Supportiveprotectivecorrective environment, and Humanism faith-hopesensitivity also between years of experiences and Supportiveprotectivecorrective environment and Expression of positive
egative feelings.
Conclusions & Recommendations: This study provided evidence that nurses recognized overall caring behaviors and each individual subscales as important and the applicability of Watson's theory in Middle Eastern cultures. It is recommended to develop a more comprehensive and short quantitative tool to measure caring for future researches, studying of medical-surgical patients' perceptions of caring behaviors among hospitals in Taif city is also recommended.