In human societies. there are various organizations which are unique and have different roles. Among them. hospital organizations aie much more complex than other organizations because of tI´ieir multitude of professional gtoups each with its own goals. To achieve its purposes. hospital should manage each professional group effectively. Hospital nursing organizations are the core positions in hospitals for patient care. Therefore nursing organizations have to have efficient nutse managers to lead nurses for their own purposes.
First- line nutse managers have special tasks for patients and nurses. which include to motivating, managing communicating with the people. So they should have high self- efficacy, which is the belief that one can successfully perform the behaviors in question. Self- Efficacy of first line nurse managers that asked them for leading their staff, and their tasks, is essential to bring about self-realization of staff nurses through motivation and job satisfaction, taking advantage of sound surrounding which is able to operate her staff nurses in order to function efficiently. But there were few studies on the topic in a hospital setting.
This study was designed to measure first-line nurse managers´ self- efficacy.
The subjects for this study were 167 first-line nurse managers randomly selected from 18 univer sits hospitals in Korea. The Self-Efficacy was measured using "The general self-efficacy scale´ developed by Sherer and Maddux(1982). The data were collected through questionnaires and analysed using SAS program, frequencies, percentagesand ):´earson" correlation coefficients.
The results of this study were as follows
1. The average of first- line nutse managecs´ self- efficacy was 66.7.
2. The correlation between first-line nurse managers´ self- efficacy and general characteris tics(age, education. career) was not signiftcant.
From the above findings. this study can suggest the following
1. Repeat studies are needed in various hospital settings.
2. First line nurse managers must be trained with special programs for each nursing organizations purposes.
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