the relation between nursing administration's self-confidence and the staff's vocational satisfaction.

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.