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Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the mediating effect of the workplace adaptation on the job burnout, organizational commitment and workplace adaptation in the general hospital nurses. The subjects were 92 nurses working at two general hospitals in one metropolitan city. As a result, the relationship between the job burnout and organizational commitment, and the relationship between the job burnout and workplace adaptation have negative correlation, respectively, and the relationship between the organizational commitment and workplace adaptation were positively correlated. For the case of the relationship between the job burnout and organizational commitment, the workplace adaptation showed mediating effect. Therefore, in order to reduce the job burnout of the nurses and to increase the organizational commitment, it is necessary to develop the training strategy to improve the workplace adaptation for the nurses adapting smoothly to various medical environments.