What’s up with Korean nurses

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(1)8,350 nurses taking the U.S. nurse test can’t work alone anymore
(2)Input 20231221 AM 500 Revised 20231221 PM 452 Article Statement
(3)Reporter Jung Eun-hye and Chae Hye-sun v
(4)one family
(5)Nurses on duty during COVID-19 Yonhap News
(6)Lee, a 15-year-old nurse working at a university hospital in Seoul, went to Osaka, Japan last October to take a U.S. nurse’s license test The test, called EnclexNCLEX, is only available overseas. Korean nurses usually take it in Japan, which is nearby Lee spent 508 Korean won (650,000 won) to receive documents alone. When transportation and teaching materials are added, the money spent for the test easily exceeds 1.5 million won. Lee, an emergency room nurse, said, “The labor intensity is strong, but the wages are too low, so I thought I could not live like this anymore, so I prepared for the test harshly.”

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(1)Korea-U.S. Nurses’ Working Environment Comparison
(2)ward standard
(3)Korea
(4)Taeum, Sangmyung Habok, Vertical and Free Opinion Expression, Horizontal Average of 73 million won
(5)Average annual salary for treatment is 31.76 million won
(6)Five days a week, eight hours a day, three shifts, three days a day, 12 hours a day, two shifts a day
(7)195 new patients in charge of training can be put into the field without training for 2-3 months. Focus only on training for 6 months to 1 year
(8)Individual clinics can be operated when training specialized in work and treatment is completed without significant difference by career

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(1)a patient in charge of a nurse
(2)Australia and Canada
(3)BOX Korea 15 to 20 people
(4)Source OECD

due to poor work environmental remuneration, etc

Trying to escape from the country

In the midst of this

I passed the Nurses Act, so I vetoed it

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