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Pilar Marqués delivered the inaugural conference at the 2CECBE Castilla y León, with the title ‘Nurse and networks: the power of invisible ties’. The lecture briefly covered the concepts of empowerment and the methodology of Social Network Analysis (SNA). Marqués introduced the SNA algorithms useful for empowerment at micro, meso and macro level, i.e. ‘degree Centrality’, ‘eigenvector’ and ‘Betweennes Centrality’, respectively, and provided practical examples of how nurses combine and coexist between different networks in their daily routine, and how their role in social structures gives them great power within the health care system.

Finally, she offered specific options to grow in nurse empowerment, underlining that the connection between empowered senior nurses and young nurses with the aptitude to be social leaders would be a responsible and exciting strategy to develop.