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Hospitals as health care providers are responsible for providing quality and safe services. Complex problems in LBW clients are reasons to be investigated. LBW babies are at risk of developing imperfections in organ function, the babies immune system or imperfect body defenses, so they are at risk of infection, delay growth and development of babies post hospitalization. Nurses as one of the professionals care providers are responsible for providing quality and safe care.. Therefore the ability of nurses to provide care, possessed knowledge, experience during caring, relationships with other health workers, readiness of parents to care at home after hospitalization is very important to be examined. The aim of the study was to explore the perceived experience of nurses critical thinking skills when providing nursing care to low-birth-baby clients. This study used a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. Data collection was conducted in January 2019 with in-depth interviews with seven participants taken by purposive sampling technique. Participants were nurses who worked in Mutiara Room 2nd floor of RSUD dr. H. Moch. Ansari Saleh Banjarmasin is a neonatal nurse. The results of the analysis obtained four themes: the ability of nurses to recognize LBW, the ability of nurses to provide LBW care, documentation requirements on LBW, and the involvement of families, health workers and work units in LBW care