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The aim of this study is to discuss the effect of intervention on job satisfaction, professional commitment and social networks. A quasi-experimental design was used in which one pre-intervention survey and one post-intervention survey was used to collect data from the 20 nurses in a ward. The score of job satisfaction in the domain of human relationship and professional commitment were significantly improved. The other 4 domains of job satisfaction had not been changed. The advice network centralization was decreased after intervention, but not friendship network. The symmetric dyad of advice network was no longer affected by position after intervention. It is concluded that empowerment intervention may be used to increase professional commitment, but not job satisfaction.
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Lai, YH., Yang, HH., Yang, LS. (2014). Empowerment Intervention in a Ward: Nurses’ Professional Commitment and Social Networks. In: Wang, L.SL., June, J.J., Lee, CH., Okuhara, K., Yang, HC. (eds) Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research. MISNC 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 473. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45071-0_22
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