With the rapid development of medicine and the improvement of income level, the medical paradigm is shifting to the concept of health promotion, not simply treating the disease. The health care of nurses working in hospitals has been underestimated as a professional healthcare professional who can protect herself without help of others. However, the hospital nurse is more important in that the poor working environment and the unhealthy condition resulting therefrom have a direct and indirect influence on the patients as well as a role model for the desirable health promoting behavior.\nThe subjects of this study were 218 nurses who were working at two general hospitals in the B city of Korea. The results were as follows: ego-resilience of 3.48, subjective well-being positive 3.19, negative emotional 2.67, life satisfaction 3.16, and health promotion behavior 3.36. The health promotion behaviors of the hospital nurses were positively correlated with positive emotions and life satisfaction among ego-resilience and subjective well-being. Ego-resilience was positively correlated with positive emotions and life satisfaction, and negative correlation with negative emotions.\nThe results showed that the higher the self-resilience and the subjective well-being of the hospital nurse, the higher the health promotion behaviors. If we develop and apply a program that strengthens the nurses health promotion behavior, we can provide the patients with good quality of care.