Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Public Health 2251-6085 42 4 2013 04 15 410 416 Fereshteh Farzianpour Dept. of Health Management and Economic, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Seyyed Mostafa Hosseini Elham Movahed Kor Shayan Hosseini Mohamad Amerzadeh Batul Ahmadi 2015 10 15 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. https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/4572 https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/4572/4219