*Graduate Institute of Health Care, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology
**Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Taoyuan branch
***Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology
Online published on 12 February, 2015.
Higher levels of professional commitment showed better job performance, job satisfaction and productivity, and lower levels of absenteeism and tardiness.
The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of empowering in-service training program to improve professional commitment and job satisfaction among nurses.
A quasi-experimental study design with non-equivalent control group design was conducted. Purposeful sampling was employed from Tao-yuan area. A total of 82 nurses subjects were recruited, and divided to experimental and control groups. The empowering in-service training program involved the curriculum content to include the cognition of workplace difficulties, social interaction communicates and the pressure manages and refuses technique etc. Both experimental and control groups took pre-test in order to set baseline, and only the experimental group obtained 6-weeks classes regarding to empower in-service training program. The experimental group took post-test immediately after intervention in order to evaluate the instant effect of teaching programs. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, and time effects were tested using generalized estimating equations (GEEs). A p value of less than.05 was considered statistically significant.
After controlling the confounding variables, the findings of this study showed that empowering in-service training program increased both of the professional commitment and job satisfaction significantly in the experimental group as control group (p<.001). However, overall professional commitment and job satisfaction trends showed no significant differences between experimental and control groups.
Our findings provided information as supplementary for nurses in-service in long- term care facilities, and help healthcare institutions understand the importance of nurses’ job satisfaction and professional commitment and improve these aspects of the organizational environment.
Professional commitment, job satisfaction, empowerment, generalized estimating equations
