PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A new report, published today by the International Centre for Nurse Migration (ICNM) in partnership with CGFNS International, Inc. and ICN titled Sustain and Retain in 2022 and Beyond, has revealed how the COVID-19 pandemic has made the fragile state of the global nursing workforce much worse, putting the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Nurses are calling on the government to take responsibility for the damages caused by the ‘With Corona’ policy, which they argue is taking a drastic toll on both healthcare workers and Koreans in general. Some 40 members of the labor union at Seoul National University Hospital held a press [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With the COVID-19 pandemic nearing its second anniversary, concerns about burnout among medical staff are rising. Yun Ye-seul (alias), a nurse working at a public health clinic in Seoul, is in charge of primary checks on patients and managing home treatment. She hasn’t been able to afford a single [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Men have taken up more than 20 percent of admissions for nursing universities in South Korea for the first time this year, data showed Monday. According to Jongro Academy, one of the country’s leading educational institutions for college admissions, 2,249 male students entered nursing universities in 2021, accounting for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized nurses on Wednesday demanded the Seoul city government reinforce the public hospital nurse workforce to alleviate the heavy workload from the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. “It has been a year and eight months since COVID-19 first broke out here, but authorities still have not resolved the shortage of nursing [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS’ dedicated fan base ARMY sent gifts to a hospital that took care of a toddler infected with COVID-19. Fans of K-pop superstar from the southern resort island of Jeju sent gifts and snacks to Konyang University Hospital in the central city of Daejeon, enclosed with a letter of [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Medical Center, one of South Korea’s major general hospitals, has introduced a flexwork program for nurses working at wards for hospitalized patients, enabling them to choose their particular hours of work instead of following a typical three shift work schedule. In addition to the typical three shift work [...]
London, United Kingdom and Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SNOMED International and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) have joined forces in an agreement that will pave the way for the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) to be managed, produced, released and distributed by SNOMED International. This agreement, which is the culmination [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A local hospital in Seoul has introduced virtual reality (VR) technology to train nurses in an ‘untact’ (contactless) environment in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Asan Medical Center announced Monday that it has set up a VR training platform to enable trainees to study in virtual [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Many nurses, who play a pivotal role in preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus, have experienced unfair treatment in hospitals due to financial difficulties, according to a recent survey. According to a survey of 2,490 nurses working at medical institutions across the country conducted by the Korean Nurses [...]