en Healt care Management پژوهشي Original article <strong>Background:</strong> Nurses&#39; self-care assessment and elimination of obstacles with appropriate interventions will have a great impact on their own health as well as the recipients of health services. This study was designed to evaluate self-care status among nurses in selected hospitals in Tehran, Iran.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> This cross-sectional study was carried out on 310 nurses working in Tehran University of Medical Sciences hospitals. Data were collected by a questionnaire with 70 questions that was conducted to evaluate the health level in five dimensions. Data were analyzed by using the statistical tests of MANOVA and Pearson&rsquo;s correlation.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> The average scores of nurses&#39; self-care in men and women were 244.1 and 245.3, respectively. The highest average score was for the supportive relationships dimension. There was a significant relationship between gender and self-care dimensions (P-value = 0.077). The average scores of self-care for nurses working in the emergency department, general department, surgical department, intensive care unit, and other sectors were 238.5, 247, 240.6, 245.6 and 251.1, respectively. There was a positive relation between supportive relationships dimension, age, and years of employment. In addition, there was a negative relation between the number of children and supportive relationships dimension (P-value < 0.05).<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> This study showed that self-care among nurses in the hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences was moderately high, in a good and acceptable situation. However, there were poor scores in some areas and further study of the nurses&rsquo; self-care and its promoting strategies is still required. Self-care, Nurses, Hospital, Iran 182 190 http://jebhpme.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-170-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Batoul Ahmadi ahmadiba@tums.ac.ir 0000-0001-9536-8235 No Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Hosein Rafiemanesh rafiemanesh.hosein@gmail.com 0000-0002-6752-7005 No Student Research Committee, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Reza Shamlou reza_20_shamlou@yahoo.com 0000-0001-8930-2723 No Department of Elder Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Yones Kor kor.younes20@gmail.com No Department of Elder Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mozhgan Letafat Nezhad moggan_letafat@yahoo.com 0000-0001-8035-3225 No School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mojtaba Mehtarpour m-mehtarpour@razi.tums.ac.ir 0000-0002-3956-6904 Yes Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran