title: The Relation between Nursing Administration's Self-Confidence and the Staff's Vocational Satisfaction.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Health Management and Economic, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Fereshteh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Farzianpour
authors.forename: Seyyed Mostafa
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hosseini
authors.forename: Elham
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Movahed Kor
authors.forename: Shayan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hosseini
authors.forename: Mohamad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amerzadeh
authors.forename: Batul
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ahmadi
keywords: Hospitals; Self-confidence; Staff workers; Vocational satisfaction