SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will expand a pilot program this month aimed at improving the irregular work schedules of nurses, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Sunday. Beginning Sept. 1, 94 hospitals and clinics selected through a government review will join the second phase of the initiative, which was first [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In a powerful display of their demands, around 20,000 nurses (according to organizers) gathered in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on May 23, raising their voices for the enactment of a separate nursing law. After resident doctors left hospitals in protest of the government’s plan to increase medical [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – With a prolonged strike by resident physicians in South Korea disrupting hospital operations, many nurses are reconsidering their career paths, with an increasing number exploring opportunities to work overseas, where the nursing profession is more robust and offers better compensation. Cho, 33, a nurse at a university hospital in Uijeongbu, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s healthcare system is facing a significant challenge as a staggering 80.6% of nurses who resigned from hospitals in 2022 had less than five years of experience, according to an analysis by the Korean Nurses Association. The data, based on a survey conducted by the Hospital Nurses Association on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Nurses were authorized to expand their role in the emergency rooms of major hospitals Friday to cope with a shortage of medical staff, as a mass walkout by more than 11,000 trainee doctors entered its 18th day and caused disruptions in health care services. About 92 percent of 13,000 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Nurses will be allowed to perform CPR and administer medication for emergency patients beginning Friday, officials have said, as part of the government’s efforts to cope with disruptions of medical services due to the ongoing mass walkout by trainee doctors. The guidelines by the Ministry of Health and Welfare [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past few months, the South Korean medical community has been divided sharply over the nursing act, with the Korean Nurses Association (KNA) and the Korean Medical Association (KMA) staging multiple rallies and the government and political parties fueling the debate. The nursing act was designed to clarify [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) —Nurses are protesting against President Yoon Seok-yeol’s veto of a controversial bill that would define the roles and responsibilities of nurses, expressing concerns about potential disruptions to the public healthcare system. On Wednesday, the Korean Nurses Association (KNA) announced their intention to engage in a so-called “work-to-rule” campaign. They plan [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Medical Association (KMA), South Korea’s largest association of doctors, on Saturday announced plans for a general strike in response to the potential passage of the Nursing Act and the Medical Law revision during the plenary session of the National Assembly. The Nursing Act expands nurses’ scope of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the nurses who have experienced the excessive workload caused by the pandemic considered changing jobs, the state human rights watchdog said Thursday. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea conducted a survey of 1,016 nurses, 57.5 percent of whom considered changing jobs while carrying out [...]