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Administrator nurses play an important role in managing costs and resources when providing high-quality healthcare services. Institutions require managers with sufficient knowledge and skills to provide effective and quality service. Administrative ability is indicated as a primary factor that can have a positive or negative impact on the vision of an organization. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a scale to identify duty-related, self-efficacy perceptions of nurses in administrative roles. Perceived self-efficacy is an important determinant in the process of initiating, maintaining, and successfully completing an action. It affects peoples choices of activities and behavioral settings, how much effort they expend, and how long they will persist in the face of obstacles and negative experiences. If health organizations conduct proper research and determine the necessary competencies for each position and management level, then potential candidates may be selected to be trained as professional administrative nurses through development programs to improve their administrative competencies. The Self-Efficacy Perception Scale for Administrator Nurses (SEPSAN) is thought to use management process theory to help assess the self-efficacy perceptions of administrative nurses regarding their administrative activities.
rganizations must focus on the efficacy and competencies of their administrators to reach their goals. Perceived self-efficacy is an important determinant in the process of initiating, maintaining, and successfully completing an action. Hence, it is important to identify confidence levels of individual administrative nurses regarding their primary competences in their administrative roles. The competence and skills of administrative nurses affect all aspects of patient care and personnel welfare due to their responsibilities to provide a patient-centric work environment in which nurses can provide holistic healthcare services. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a scale to identify duty-related, self-efficacy perceptions of administrator nurses. The literature emphasizes the importance of evaluating the perceived self-efficacy of administrators (Gilmartin & Nokes 2015; Pillay 2008). It is thought the present study will contribute to the relevant literature because there is no scale that can measure the comprehensive administration process/ theory-based perceptions of the self-efficacy of administrative nurses at each level.
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Self-efficacy, which refers to the individuals belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments (Carey & Forsyth, 2009), may be a determining...