فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Nurses are considered the largest and most important human resource for healthcare organizations. Self-efficacy asthe main predictor of nurses’ behavior plays an important role in nurses’ professional behavior. However, the various dimensionsand threats of caring self- efficacy concept have not been taken into consideration.Objectives: The present paper attempts to identify threats to self-efficacy as an important aspect of the concept of pediatric nurses’caring self-efficacy.Materials and Methods: This study is part of a larger study on the caring self-efficacy concept that was conducted through contentanalysis and from a qualitative approach in 2014 in Iran. Twenty-seven nurses and pediatric clinical instructors participatedin this research according to the purposive sampling method employed in the study. Data were collected through semi-structuredinterviews. The collected data were analyzed using the conventional content analysis method.Results: “Threats to self-efficacy” was one of the main themes extracted from the interview analysis results in the present study.The theme consists of two main categories “individual barriers,” including not having a caring attitude and not being interestedin children, and “organizational barriers,” including an inefficient educational system, not developing professional capabilities,non-valuation of the organization in a caring context, a poor rewards system, and inappropriate managerial policies.Conclusions: Nursing management and custodians of nursing trainings can break through the barriers to self-efficacy by knowingthese factors and making changes in the educational programs and providing supporting policies. This can be an important steptoward improving nurses’ inefficacy and ultimately improving the provision of quality healthcare services.