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This study has the purpose of preparing the basis for the development of Tai Chi exercise program as nursing mediation by verifying the effects of functions of the upper limbs, functional independence, and rehabilitative motivation on stroke patients who have entered facilities. This study has executed Tai Chi exercise program for eight weeks from July to September 2011 as a detailed quasi-experiment non-equivalent control group, and the SPSS 18.0 program was used to analyze the data. The results of verifying the hypothesis ‘the experiment group that has participated in Tai Chi exercise program will have a higher score in their functions of upper limbs than the control group’ was partially supported (t=7.600, p<.001; t=-.362, p=.719), and second hypothesis ‘the functional independence of the experiment group that has participated in Tai Chi exercise program will be higher than that of the control group’ was supported (t=22.187, p=.038), and third hypothesis ‘the rehabilitative motivation of the experiment group that has participated in Tai Chi exercise program will have a higher score than the control group’ was supported (t=-5.507, p<.001). Resultingly, Tai Chi exercise program applied in this study was verified as an effective nursing mediation. Tai Chi exercise program used in enhancing the will to participate in rehabilitation and to maintain independent life even with the chronic disease of stroke.