The Effect of the Level of Self-Efficacy Confidence of the Nurses on Their Performance: Example of Elazig Province

With this study, it was aimed to determine the level of self-efficacy beliefs and how these beliefs affect their performance of nurses working in hospitals in the city of Elazig. Nurses of hospitals operating in the city of Elazig constitute the universe of research. There are a total of 8 hospitals including 4 public and 4 private in Elazig. A total of 1,535 nurses are employed in these hospitals. The sample consists of 309 randomly selected nurses representing the universe. In this study, the quantitative research method has been used and data obtained through the face -to-face survey technique. In this study, the main statistical analyses used are descriptive statistics, reliability analysis and regression. The study findings showed that the nurses' self-efficacy belief levels (X=4.27; sd=0.52) and performances (X=4.11; sd=0.64) was high. Self-efficacy belief levels was found to have a positive low effect on employee performance. Self-efficacy may be effective at a rate of 6% on employee performance (r=0.253; r2=0.064; p<0.001).