ABSTRACT
Self-confidence is a glorious feature of an effective administrator. Their main goal is the organizational success. Therefore, we approached this idea by evaluating the self-confidence of nursing Administration in Tehran University of Medical Sciences [TUMS] Teaching Hospitals and its relation to vocational satisfaction of the staff. In a cross-sectional study, we interviewed 200 nursing administrators and 200 staff in different departments of the TUMS Teaching Hospitals using a standardized questionnaire to assess the self-confidence among nursing administrators and staff satisfaction. Data were entered in SPSS [17.0] and analyzed using this software and STATA [11.0] using non-parametric tests and Spearman's correlation of coefficient. The significant level was set as P<0.05. Of 200 nursing administrators 58 [29%] were male and 142 [71%] were female. Mean +/- SD of the self-confidence score for the nursing administrators was 134.9 +/- 19.8. Among the staff 68 [34%] were male and 132 [66%] were female. The mean +/- SD of the vocational satisfaction for staff was 89.12 +/- 18.3. After considering the effect of departments in a regression model, the correlation between nursing administration's self-confidence and the staff's vocational satisfaction was found not significant [P=0.055]. Gender and years of employment were the only factors affecting self-confidence and vocational satisfaction between the nursing administration and staff respectively, which not significantly correlated after adjustment